6 tools for boundary setting and assertive communication. I hope they will empower your festival journey—and your day-to-day life!
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The Floating Pirate Community you always wanted to Join is Real… & it has a Name
Musafir is more than a ship. She’s an ideal—a vision and symbol of another way of life. Those who built her and those who meet her […]
Wanderlusters: Running Away Doesn’t Work. (But Run Anyway!)
Originally published at elephant journal—7 September, 2016. This is fun. I’m going through some old writings in anticipation of a possible project or two, and […]
Choose Power: A Dream-Inspired Thought Experiment
It’s been a wildly busy month, and though sharing something here has been on my to-do list every week, it just keeps getting pushed to […]
Microadventure in Costa Rica: 3 Snippets of Daily Life
Whether I’m hopping continents or battling insects in my jungle house, life is always some kind of a wild ride… or a microadventure! These days, […]
But Still: A Short Story on the Wisdom of Trust
“Trust no one,” the wise ones said. Deep-lined faces, milk eyes clouded with all the memories of all the misfortunes of all the ages, they hummed […]
What to Do with a 10-Hour Train Ride
I’ve done that thing again. That thing where I look at plane tickets, look at train tickets, enter all available data into an elaborate equation […]
How to Go Out Alone (& Not Hate It)
It’s 2009, and I’m eighteen. Paris is home for the year. It’s a chilly night in early winter. Ten or eleven o’clock. I’ve just gotten […]
The Girl Who was Afraid of Everything—Fiction
The Girl Who Was Afraid of Everything. (A break from the usual—story time!) *** Once there was a girl who was afraid of everything. She […]
Some Things I Like (About Travel)
Lisbon, Portugal. Saturday afternoon, somewhere far from the city center. I like this cafe, edged in fading sunlight, that flanks a nondescript park. I […]