I love that travel can allow us to see our own homes with fresh eyes. And I have the same experience after gathering with loved ones – a chance to return to myself with added clarity, a renewal born of remembrance. Dear ones, time flies away. We are so often scattered and scared. May we […]
I returned bleary from a red eye flight straight into the arms of dozens of college friends at our school reunion this weekend. No matter how many times I visit campus in-between big events, there is something alchemical about being in the same place with the same cohort of people who knew one another so […]
When I visited Japan last fall, I kept having flashbacks to my 20-year old self, the person I’d been when I first traveled there. Every Proustian taste and every recollected phrase pulled me into a strange parallel universe, where I was simultaneously then and now. Then I happened upon this passage from Zora Neale […]