June 12, 2025
December 24, 2025
What The Moon Saw: Copenhagen, 2023
A collection of travel moments framed through Andersen's timeless, luminous tales.
May 18, 2025
Northeim 2023
A trip that had begun so well with a sublime truffle tortellini at 35,000 feet was rapidly dissolving into a properly Grimm misadventure.
February 12, 2025
Cappadocia 2022: The Stone Fairies of Göreme
The rain lends an otherworldly mien to the thick pillars and sharp mushroom-shaped rock caps, and I decide that whoever named these fairy chimneys was thinking of Scheherazade's Paribanou.
January 23, 2025
The Case of The Bookworm and The Travel Bug: Istanbul 2022
The Mysterious Mannequin was the first Nancy Drew story my mother had given me. It had a bright yellow spine, a cover intriguing enough for the exotic tale of Istanbul it spun, a disappearance in the Grand Bazaar and a confrontation in the Basilica Cistern, messages concealed in a carpet, and throwaway descriptions of baklava and moussaka within.
August 27, 2024