TobyI have the clearest memory of asking my father for help tying my shoes. I was sitting on the bottom step of our unfinished basement—I […]
Tag: loneliness
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 […]
Give Me Loneliness (a poem for travelers and dreamers)
Sagres, Portugal, early May. This past weekend, after a few wonderful weeks of travel and adventure with friends and family, I gave myself the gift of […]