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On Listening (a response to the Mona Eltahawy criticism)

Unless you live under a rock, dear blog reader, you’ve probably witnessed the hulabaloo over the past 24 hours about an article by Mona Eltahawy entited “Why Do They Hate Us?” I don’t feel the need to comment on the article’s content, particularly as many already have, but I would instead like to comment on […]

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The Best Parts

I fear that my last post may have maligned travel. In all my exhaustion, I’m nonetheless in a constant state of awe at how, in the past five or six years, I’ve developed a group of friends more incredible, more diverse (yet also somehow strikingly similar in ideals), more open-minded than would ever be possible […]

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Dispatches from a Frequent Flyer

It’s no secret: I fly a lot. While I can’t seem to dig up my stats from last year, TripIt (my travel tracking tool of choice) tells me that in the time I’ve been using it (since approximately mid-2010), I’ve clocked 354,000 some-odd miles, traveling to 56 cities and 22 countries. Within my (TripIt) network, […]