hello, lovely people.

I’ve moved over here… (it’s a brand new blog I call Little Histories). I hope to see you there! xx

small planet.

As soon as the new year arrived, a strange panic set in. I realized that I was back in a place I’ve been many times before: completely uncertain of where I’ll be living in just a few short months....

Hello, 2012. It’s nice to meet you.

2012 is the year I begin in Poland and end who-knows-where. I want to fill 2012 to the brim with new adventures and more globetrotting and good music and even better coffee. A few resolutions (or...

Goodbye, 2011.

Goodbye, 2011. You were a really excellent year. I’ll miss you. I may have written down some resolutions for 2011, but if I did, I can’t find them. And I’m not worrying about it too much. (Although...

Storytelling

I grew up listening to stories from my parents’ childhoods, which couldn’t have been more different. My mom grew up in Texas, and my dad… well, he went to boarding school in the Swiss Alps. I lived...

Long Ago & Far Away

Whether or not you’re a fellow Smithie, you should go swoon over the photographs at Vintage Smith College. (And, yes, my college years did include drinking fancy cocktails at a bar in an abandoned...

The Middle of Everywhere

Oh my… where have the days gone? I’ve been busy, it’s true, disappearing and reappearing again in places like this: and this: Escaping from Warsaw (where the sun now sets by 3:30) and slipping into...

On Photography

Polaroid’s SX-70. It won’t let you stop. Suddenly you see a picture everywhere you look… Now you press the red electric button. Whirr… whoosh… and there it is. You watch your picture come to life,...

London Instagrams

It’s been a while since I last blogged! But I have a good excuse, I think: I was off on a magical trip to London. And this is what it looked like: London was a dazzling blur of museums and art and...

Saved By Droog.

On Sunday, I met up with my friend Dara at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. One of the coolest things I’ve seen inside a museum in a while (and I go to a lot of museums) was Saved By...

Here & There #2: Warsaw & Michigan

Here: Warsaw, Poland: Feeling a little under the weather today, so having a quiet day & reading. The wall above my bed is a collection of things that remind me of home, including my graduation...

Knitting Something

What: French Press Cozy (free PDF pattern!) With: Stash yarn – discontinued superwash wool While: Watching Mad Men (I’m addicted!) Where: My apartment in Warsaw I haven’t knit this much in ages. I...

All Saints Day in Warsaw

I had originally planned to spend the holiday yesterday writing, but then Rachel told me that there were going to be tours of the Jewish Cemetery in honor of All Saints Day– an interesting example...

50,000 x 10

It’s almost November 1st. It’s easy to tell here in Poland, because every little corner store has a shelf full of candles to be brought to the graves of family members and loved ones on All Saints...

A Blocking Problem

Well, I’ve almost finished this scarf (the Lace Ribbon Scarf by Veronik Avery– one of the projects I packed with me), but I ran into a problem. I finished knitting it, and then realized I have no...

Here & There

I really love One Sheepish Girl’s blog series This and That, and I was thinking about doing my own. At the same time, I was mulling over the odd sensation of simultaneously feeling homesick and yet...

Early Morning Inspiration…

One early Saturday morning while I was living in New York City, I decided to spend the day wandering Museum Mile. I’d stopped by my favorite coffee shop for coffee and a croissant. It was a...

Three Books

Yesterday, I was emailed a survey for alumni of my high school. It was exciting and fun to fill out (and certainly a trip down memory lane) but one question really stood out among all the others:...

On Blogging: The Blogosphere & The Babysitter’s Club

Yesterday, I read this amazing post (and its prequel) by Elizabeth at Things Bright about reading fewer blogs. And she is so spot-on about everything she says about how the blogging world has...

Pieces of the Weekend

We* went to a screening of How to Boil a Frog at the Warsaw Film Festival. It wasn’t the best, but it sparked some interesting discussion during the Q&A. If you like hilarious documentaries about...

Weekend in Gdansk

This week has been so busy that I’m finally posting pictures from last weekend. Yikes. Apparently my roommate Amanda is far more on top of blogging than I am, since she chronicled our weekend trip...

Today is Mountain Day.

One day every fall at Smith College, the weather is deemed too beautiful for students to stay inside and all classes are cancelled so that students can go apple picking and otherwise enjoy the New...

Think Global, Shop Local – Part Two

The last time I traveled to Poland, one of the first things I did was do a search on Etsy’s shop local feature to see what kinds of things I might discover from sellers in Krakow, where I was...

My Dad, the Marathon Man

This post is basically just a big shout-out to my dad. My dad is pretty awesome. Here’s some proof. This is my dad about an hour after he ran the Warsaw Marathon: Yep, a couple weekends ago (I’m...

Change of A Dress

I’ve had a lot of changes of address recently. Simultaneously, I moved, my beloved .edu email address expired, and the biggest change of them all: I migrated my blog to WordPress. So thank you,...

On Happy Beginnings

After my sophomore year of college, I decided to transfer schools to be closer to home. After the school year ended, my dad flew down to Dallas, packed up my stuff in a UHaul (see above for...

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Orientation in Wrocław

My apologies to everyone who is waiting with bated breath of stories from Poland thus far. I haven’t had much time for blogging, but I made it safe and sound– first to Warsaw and then to Wrocław...

Let’s Get Out of this Country

Goodbye, New York. Ill miss you terribly. And hello, Warsaw. Im so excited to explore you.

Nine: Songs to Pack To

Im not sure why I thought I would have time for blogging amid all these hectic days before I jet off. Ive left lots of half-finished drafts sitting in my queue that Ive somehow managed to begin but...