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It should be really easy to write a Suitcase Scholar 2019 Year in Review post. In fact, I’d wager I can get it down to fewer than ten words:
Read moreIt’s 2019, y’all. Which is crazy. I mean, I remember being a kid in the 80s and realizing that I would probably live to see the year 2020—but I’d be all old by then. And here we are, three hundred and fifty-something days away from that very year and frighteningly close to me being all old. And speaking of crazy, do you know what else is crazy about 2019? It marks the ten year anniversary of The Suitcase Scholar.
Read moreMy end of 2018 New Years Eve message for you–musings on travel, change, and 114 nights.
Read morePeople are all like: what do you MEAN you don’t have a next trip planned*, Tracy? That does not mesh with my understanding of your place in the world or, more specifically, the place in the world to which I have assigned you. You are traveler girl and will forever be traveler girl in my mind.
Read moreI stopped and thought about 2016. And I wondered: did the good outweigh the bad? I wasn’t sure. So I did what any sane person would do. I assigned numerical values to everything that happened in 2016 to determine if it really was the worst year ever. You know–using math.
Read moreEarly last month, I wrote about my next trip, a week and a half in Paris. Yesterday I packed my backpack, checked in to my flight, and added my virtual boarding pass to Apple Wallet. This morning I got up, called the airline, cancelled my flight, emailed the hotel, cancelled my room, and apologized profusely…
Read moreBloggers love to throw around the term ‘travel bucket list’. I’m certain I’ve written my own bucket list post at some point. But let me tell you–when you actually almost die? Your list changes.
Before I found out was sick and needed scary surgery, I wanted to go to all of the places and see all of the things. Now that I’m better…
Read moreIs this freelance life what I want for the long term? I don’t know. I’m still trying to figure out how to make my life work. And in the midst of all of this, something else just happened: I was diagnosed with cancer.
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