A year ago today, a blizzard hit New Orleans for the first time since the 1800s. Chewie and I were staying alone Uptown in a stranger’s house that I was subletting month-to-month. I wandered outside for hours, watching snowballs fights…
The 15 Best Books I Read in 2025
Reading looked different for me this year than it usually does. Since I wasn’t near my usual library for much of the year, physical books were harder to get. I wasn’t in New Orleans for most of the year, so…
One of my dream publications let me write about Sleepy Hollow!
When I found out I was going to be in Upstate New York for a few days at the beginning of October, I reached out to BBC Travel to ask them if I could write a story for them about…
Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, and Whale Watching in Quebec
When I’m returning to a travel destination I’ve visited before, I always want to make sure I’m experiencing something new with each visit. Since I knew I’d be spending most of my time in Canada in Montreal (which I’d visited…
15 Spooky Books to Read This Fall
Every year as October gets closer, I feel an overwhelming need to read every spooky thing I can get my hands on. BUT I’m quite picky about what constitutes the right type of spooky. I don’t want to be afraid…
10 Things That Co-living Teaches You
This summer, I planned to spend a month staying at Nomad Coliving in Montreal. I loved it so much that I ended up extending for an extra month. If you aren’t familiar with what a co-living space is, it’s like…
