And it truly is an art, to find the balance between alone-ness and loneliness. Living alone only seems to heighten my feelings of...

Ever since I visited my sister Cassie in Seattle 4 years ago, I've kept it in the back of my mind. I wouldn't mind living there, I often...

It’s been almost three weeks since I’ve stopped sweating uncontrollably. This development happened to coincide with my departure from...

And now we have academics. Yes, I still had homework to do and classes to attend while in another country. I’m just saying that in case...

Here I sit, physically in the United States, while every other part of me longs to be elsewhere. It’s hard to be back. But one of my...

The Legend of April They told us in Chiang Mai. They said it again in Bangkok. Over and over, the warnings came until I could sense this...

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I’m so used to talking about the power of prayer that I rarely consider how it can be dangerous too. I was walking home from work one day...

Five Weeks. That's all the time that has passed since I stepped off the plane, and in 24 hours, I'll be stepping on another one to go...

You can read more about the visit to the Golden Triangle in the photo essay. Here is a brief video of my time there.