a retreat into the wilderness

I am, on some fundamental level, a homebody with a wandering heart. When I’m not learning the contours and whispered stories of a new place abroad, I’m intoxicated by the quiet joy and beauty of everyday moments at home. I am always wandering; I am always home. This little trip to Tassie has been persistently […]

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our wedding

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This weekend marks six months since the beginning of the most beautiful adventure. Sometimes, there are moments whose weight cannot be contained in words. I’m a writer who can string ashes into pretty, garland metaphors. Yet, there are not lovely-enough words to describe the string of undying flowers that your love has permanently pinned upon […]

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our honeymoon

Whenever we told people that we had decided to honeymoon in New Zealand, we were invariably met with some version of, “YES, oh my goodness, you’ll love it. New Zealand is so you guys!” And oh, truly, we did love it. New Zealand captured our hearts and in the few weeks that we were there, we […]

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on long distance

A heart’s desire can tear apart worlds; can build them. A heart’s desire is no small thing. Today is our four year anniversary! Four years since Dickson sweetly met me with coffee on a cold winter morning, walked with me by flower fields and the sea and asked me to embark on this adventure with […]

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nostalgic musings on hong kong

Last November, I spent six days in Hong Kong and it was an overwhelming whirlwind of familiarity, unfamiliarity, reflection and thankfulness. Hong Kong is strange place for me – at once both a solid, objective location and a somewhat ephemeral concept enshrined in my memory. Of course, I love the vibrancy of the culture, the […]

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