I usually live in St. Paul, Minnesota but for the last nine months I've been traveling: through India, Nepal, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia. I spent the last three months living in my second hometown of Wellington, New Zealand. You can read about my...
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I usually live in St. Paul, Minnesota but for the last nine months I've been traveling: through India, Nepal, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia. I spent the last three months living in my second hometown of Wellington, New Zealand. You can read about my...
On an overcast day this fall, I checked a few boxes, entered a few numbers, and felt a small but significant weight lift from my shoulders. 10 years after finishing my B.A. and 7 years after turning in the final paper for my M.A., those degrees...
This post is actually from last year, but I thought it could be particularly helpful during this time of resolution-making and goal setting! If you have been reading Yes and Yes for any amount of time, you probably know that Making The Lists and...
Each year on my birthday I make a list of new things I want to try. Some of them are challenging, some are easy, some are shockingly mundane. You can read about previous adventures here. Sometimes, when I'm undertaking these New Thing adventures...

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