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I adore all things kitsch: oversized fish monuments, festivals dedicated to seasonal crops, antique junk shops. They all speak to my inner tourist, which only seems to emerge in my home state of Minnesota. Fall is the best season to enjoy all the kitschy goodness of the north woods, as well as the colorful chorus […]

Some days when I open my front door and breathe in the morning air, some scent triggers the nostalgic region of my brain, and I swoon a little. It’s something sweet and pungent, like the smoke from juniper branches burnt every morning in Himalayan households. Outside their front doors, branches burn in large urns, an […]

Hanoi. The capital of Vietnam. Quieter, calmer and cleaner than its metropolitan sister to the south, Saigon. When we were there in January, it was lovely, cool, and misty, the city brimming with history. I’ll let the images speak today. Remember to click on each to see it in its full glory! XOXO,

I know, I know. Funnest: it’s not a word. Forgive me. I tend to use poor grammar when I’m excited. In this case, it’s about Etsy. Etsy fills me with unbridled glee. And if you’re not an Etsian yet, then I want to share this glee with you. Etsy is an online marketplace of handmade […]

It was a sultry late afternoon in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Our tuk-tuk driver paused alongside the dirt road to fill up his small motorbike tank with gas. He thumbed over a few Cambodian Riel to the woman at the “gas station,” a small cart selling reused Pepsi bottles full of clear-yellow gasoline. Tank full, we […]

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