Sometimes I go to yoga simply to stand in the middle of a room where I don’t have to be worried about hitting my neighbor. Living in a city, these accidental collisions occur more often than you like: at the market, when you have your eye
I remember the sandwich vividly. It was unassuming to the eye—our choice of picnic fare on a budget—assembled from bread, peanut butter and Manuka honey we’d bought from the corner store in a small town in New Zealand. But when we bit in, allowing that
It’s a rare destination that conjures up nostalgia when you’ve never even visited, but that’s exactly the kind of spell Lake Tahoe casts. From the moment that first patch of blue breaks forth from the evergreens after a long day’s drive (or even a short
There were approximately 50 steps to the front door of my crush’s house. I scanned for the doorbell as I tiptoed up the stairs, planning my exit strategy. “I’ll meet you around the block,” my mom had said when she dropped me off two houses
In March, I went time traveling. Not the kind of time travel depicted in the movies—there were no sleek futuristic machines or flashy buttons to guide my path—in fact, the experience was quite the opposite. I traveled back to a simpler era by giving up
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the belief that something else is more important than fear.” –Meg Cabot It’s barely past ten in the morning when I place my toes at the edge of a highwire platform suspended 134 meters above the Nevis River
Northwest of San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge and hours past the bayside suburbs of Sausalito and Tiburon, thrives a world distinctly different from the city’s bustling streets and iconic Victorians. Here, the clamor of urbanism is replaced with the serenity of openness, with