Notes from the West Highland Way
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I… Read More
Notes from the West Coast Trail
An adventure in which five women carry a combined one-hundred-and-ninety pounds of food, shelter and vodka seventy-five kilometers down the coast of Canada’s Vancouver Island. *** Day 1: Port Renfrew to Camper… Read More
Reflections on Paris, Fear and the Gift of Travel
Sitting next to the glow of the fire while the storm howled outside, I watched as the wind swept a girl wrapped in an oversized scarf into our hostel. Eyes wild with… Read More
Beyond the Aurora
“Where you folks from?” asks a weathered-looking woman standing at the front of the airport shuttle, eying me up and down as though already quite certain of the answer. Hailing from Toronto,… Read More
Cooking with Emotion in Chiang Mai
“Cook with your emooooootion,” instructs Indy, our young Thai cooking teacher, elongating each vowel as she tosses ingredients into the hot oil in one fluid motion. We stand in front of our… Read More
The Lifeblood of Kainakary Village
I woke well before the knock on my door came at 6:55. He had interrupted our blissful evening about twelve hours earlier, sliding alongside our houseboat in his narrow canoe to make… Read More
Good Heads & Hearts in Dharavi
You must have it a good heads, to like these things, and you must be having a good hearts, to not like them too much…Now my Bombay, with your good heads… Read More
Lunch with a Monk
It’s eleven o’clock in the morning and I can feel the beginning stages of a full-blown hanger attack creeping in, the type of irrational wrath and fury that can only come from… Read More
