• Travel

    Three Days in NYC

    As a post-Peace Corps treat to myself and as a birthday weekend for my uncle Thaddeus and aunt Bethany, I tagged along with my family to the Lower East Side where Thaddeus currently lives. We squeezed into a hotel room in midtown on a Thursday night last weekend and had a day of adventures together on Friday. When my aunt,…

  • Happenings in My Life

    Twenty-Three

    Today is my 23rd!! This is the first birthday of my life when I’m not in school. That feels rather odd. I’ve always thought September birthdays are the best because it’s just on the cusp of fall and I had the first birthday of the school year out of my friends. The parties and birthday celebrations were always the best…