April 10, 2021
Tag: travel
December 17, 2020
Washington, D.C. 2019
Do we want to try and go on a White House tour? I asked. Not during this administration, my mother replied. So here we finally are, gazing across at the White House and it looks... diminished by the last four years.
November 6, 2020
Philly 2019: At home in America
I began to write this on the eve of the US elections, and it is... unsettling to know that three days after, right now there are people dressed as dancing mail boxes on the streets of Philly.
August 16, 2020
New York 2019
Just like that, I am here, in the greatest city on earth, in the country of my former colonizers. It is slightly disorienting.
May 10, 2020
New York 2019: Mum and me
When you have three other siblings, quality time with your remaining parent is something of a hard-fought commodity, and the older we got the more it seemed as though the only way I could get through the chatter of everyday living was by going on holidays with her. We'd done our first big Europe trip together; and now, in the fall of 2019, we were in New York.
March 10, 2020