nod 'n' smile

Hello from 37,000 feet in the air. I’m writing this during my 14 hour flight from NYC to Johannesburg, South Africa where I will have a one hour layover- just enough time to hopefully hustle off of the plane and make my connection to Nairobi, Kenya. The entire journey should take nearly 20 hours but [...]

Every year around this time, I always have a few conversations with people about how the year flew by, how it disappeared more quickly than the last. It always seems like there’s never enough time. It always seems that despite my best efforts, there’s always a lot of things left undone. So, what a wonderful [...]

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas if you celebrated the holiday, and a good weekend regardless. It seems a lot of people had today off from work, so it still felt like a continuation of the weekend. My Christmas Day was very different this year because J and I hosted family at our apartment- [...]