How Having Cancer Changed My Bucket List: On Mortality, Travel, and Friendship

August 6, 2016

Bloggers 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…

Educational Adventures

Beyond Bourbon: How to Plan a Horse-Themed Kentucky Trip

August 18, 2015

I went to Kentucky to learn about bourbon. I was really excited about it. And then I got to Kentucky and everywhere I looked there were long wooden fences surrounding rolling green hills topped with silhouettes of majestic horses tossing their heads around like they were in a freaking horse shampoo commercial and the used-to-be-a-little-girl part of me was like ohmygodIlovethemIlovethemIlovethem and I got kind of distracted.