“You see that girl? She dyed her hair for this trip. And that one? I guarantee she bought those shoes specifically for Las Vegas.” Julia* sipped her coffee as she eyed the people riding the elevator from the entrance of Mandalay Bay up to the concourse that connected the resort to Luxor, one of the …
My life turned upside down in December of 2008. I finished graduate school on a high note and I should have been happy but I wasn’t. No job awaited me, the economy had tanked and all I received for the next few months were letters of rejection, one after the other. I had a BA …
47B. That’s me. Aisle seat. On a 17-hour flight, I made sure to take an aisle seat. I was flying from LA to Bangkok and was seated next to a short 50-ish Indian man wearing bright yellow Bermuda shorts. His eyes sparkled behind big gold-rimmed specs and his moustache stretched across his face as he …
Grace had been crying since we arrived in Iceland. The wind stung her eyes; she was cold and it was gloomy. Her stuffed cat Gretzky kept getting blown out of her hands. Even though we’d bought her a blue fleece balaclava within an hour of checking into our hotel, she still objected every time we …
My childhood dream was traveling to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower. Over the years I fed that dream by trying to learn the language (unsuccessfully, so far) and falling in love with a country I never stepped foot in. You can imagine my surprise and pure joy when my boyfriend asked me if I …
In the early 2000’s my wife Melissa, my husband Tim, our daughter Rhiannon, and I trekked to Maui for a relaxing, tropical holiday. It was our first time off the mainland. Tim, whose atmospheric comfort zone consists of a 7-degree span in the upper 60’s and lower 70’s with 0 humidity, did not care for …