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 […]
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, […]
No, not of sobriety (have you met me?). Not a child’s birthday, nor the anniversary of a job. Nope, today I celebrate five years with Global Voices! On April 15, 2007, I wrote my very first GV post on the Moroccan blogosphere’s discussion of the then-recent Casablanca suicide bombings and the “soul of Morocco.” So […]