
For people who feel different in different places — and what those shifts say about identity, belonging, and memory.
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Christmas morning — Essaouira, Morocco
I smelled the boat before I heard it: the salty, sour, oppressive tang of fish guts. I choked on my breath. Does nobody else smell this? I scanned the dock for someone else wrinkling their nose, only...
The first time I really listened to Brasilian Portuguese, it grated on my ears.
I boarded an 18-hour sleeper bus from Iguazú Falls to São Paulo, tracing the goosebumps on my arms from the blasting AC. Two guys from Rio sang, “Bem viiiinda,...
“EUA made you sick, MX was the cure.”
I swayed in a hammock, tucked in the corner of a shared rooftop in Mexico. It had been three months since I’d ended my sabbatical, and I needed to return. I’d never been to Mexico, but this – this felt...
My first therapist lived on the water.
If by lived, I could say her office — a repurposed house boat floating on a dock in Eastlake, or Westlake, one of the posh neighborhoods hugging Seattle's Lake Union.
I step onto the boat, and it sh...
Welcome to VERY LOST. I’m coming to you from Month 17 of my travel sabbatical, writing about the places that have shaped my understanding of how we live and interact. If you want to travel along with me, subscribe below.
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I write about how place shapes who we are and what we become. Before that, I turned a tech layoff into a two-year travel sabbatical.
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