This Wasn't the Plan
Brandi WiatrakEssays + research about travel, natural health, and the life you didn't exactly plan — for anyone still figuring out what "having it all" is supposed to feel like.
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I Was More Worried About the Living
An AI rendition of my in-law’s hallway in their 1920s Chicago bungalow.
A month ago I published a piece called Get Out Now about a paranormal experience I had at a bed and breakfast in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and I want to say thank you. 6...
Your Childhood Chocolate Is Banned in Europe. And the Replacement Might Be Worse.
Photo by Janne Simoes
I have eaten a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup in every emotional state a human can experience. Celebrating. Grieving. Bored on a Friday afternoon at work. Sitting in a Target parking lot, one already open before I made it...
My Dad Was Never There. He Still Taught Me How to Travel.
Me trying not to get spooked by this feisty, spitting camel in Cairo, Egypt.
My dad was never home when I was growing up. He was in the Navy, which meant six months here, six months somewhere in Asia or the Middle East, somewhere with a na...
Everything Is Sweet and Nothing Is Food
American breakfast. The coffee is also dessert. Photo by author.
I spent years pouring Sugar Free Italian Sweet Creme Coffee Mate into my coffee every single morning. No sugar. Right there on the label. I was doing the right thing. I was b...
Why Does My Stomach Only Hurt in America
I’m one of those stereotypical millennial kids who grew up eating Pop-Tarts, frozen Salisbury steaks, cinnamon and sugar on buttered toast, glasses of 2% milk with Nesquik, and enough Top Ramen to fill a swimming pool. Not exactly a nutriti...
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Recovering overachiever (still overachieving, still figuring it out). I write about natural health, what's actually in the products you use every day, and the trips, detours, and wrong turns that make life worth writing about. Come along?
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