“OMG!!” Exclaimed my newly married friend. “I just realized that all you buggers* will be really old moms”. Thank you, thank you for that. Here I am, suffering from quarter life crisis, panicking over no emergency savings fund and a…
Remember that typical scene from a movie where the hero gets down on one knee and offers a rose to the heroine, then asks “Will you marry me?” The heroine smiles, they come closer together and hold each other in…
I was 19 when I experienced my first ‘White Christmas’, and somehow it didn’t feel right. In case you are wondering, it didn’t just start snowing in Sri Lanka one fine Christmas; that was in Iowa, USA. Despite what all…
It was just a few days ago, on the second Sunday of Advent, that my housemates and I put on roughly eight layers (each, mind you, not combined) and ventured out into the freezing weather to chop ourselves down a…
Autumn is awesome in Nepal. The white Himalayas kiss the blue sky and the yellow paddy fields dance in slow motion, in tune with the caressing breeze and the whispering river playing hide-and-seek down the blue mountains. Nature is amazing….
[bilingual article: English + Español] In Mexico, on the 2nd of November, we celebrate el Día De Los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead. It is a beautiful tradition that honours our ancestors, and exemplifies how the clash of…
