If there is one thing that an adolescent addiction to family sitcoms had taught me (and, lets face it, it taught me many things), it is that in Hawaii they hand out leis like they're going out of style. You arrive at the airport: you...
Baby-Sitters Club was one of those things that was mine. I read all the books, watched the TV show, begged my parents to let me audition for a role in the movie. Dawn had me wishing I was a California girl. Stacey and Super Special...
Over ten years ago I inherited a guitar from my sister when she replaced it with a new model for herself. Every so often I'd take it out of it's black case and haphazardly strum, making up songs, taking out joy or aggression in the...
I'm not exactly sure why I put this on my life list. But, it's there. And I just noticed that this 2009 video of me going from 0 to drunk in Alaska for has reached over 5,000 views on YouTube. So, there we have it. Mission...
Gnocchi are little magical puffs of Italian goodness. True story. I mean, why would anyone in their right mind ever choose regular old pasta, which is just basically flour when they could have pasta made with potato? Or cheese? Quite possibly two of the most amazing things...
I always hated my toes. They're chubby and fat. And they get a bit too hairy. Yes, yes I just admitted all of that on the interweb. (And I wonder why no one wants to date me?) And then there's the fact that the big toenail...
I have had a bottle of pink hair dye that has been sitting in my drawer for, no joke, twelve years. I probably bought it my sophomore year of college when I was dying my hair every color of the rainbow. Every color, that is,...
CNX > BKK > AUH > ORD Photos from my journey home from Thailand. Get picked up at the airport by someone with a sign with my name on it was number 127 on my life list. ...
"When I met you I thought you were together," the Korean girl sitting across from Alex and I at the bar said, "you seemed really close." This was after we answered the other guy's question of "where did you two meet," with "at the hostel yesterday." And...
I've never really been a water person. Growing up, we had a pool in our backyard that largely went unused minus the times I would bungee jump my Barbies into it from my bedroom window. I quit my childhood swim lessons because I didn't want...