Touch down in Podgorica Airport. The chill of Eastern European air encourages the hairs on my arm to stand in formation. Small pools of sweat…
“It’s so HEAVYYY!” Several heads turn my direction and the disapproving stares of strangers cause me to wonder if I said that aloud by accident….
Never leave your items unattended. Always keep your eyes peeled for dodgy characters. Sleep with your valuables on night trains. Don’t. Trust. Anyone. They’re the…
The needle digs into my thigh. Pain cracks through the numb haze that’s descended over my mind from an afternoon making the most of the…
“Olivia’s effort and concentration in class have been variable. At times she has participated well, but at other times, has been off-task. In her future…
In the dying days of the Japanese ski season, there was a definite lack of snow. When there is a lack of snow around these…
I was six, and we were the sun and the moon, radiant and bright. Riv had inky black hair, eyes like wet mud smeared across…
I arrived in Canada to begin what was to become my fourth snow season, but my first long-term solo overseas trip. I had no job…
I stare out the plane window at the twinkling lights in the darkness below. That’s Japan down there. Hitting the ground feels like victory: a…
Long days. Cold nights. Fatigue and loneliness. Standing in the harsh sun, I’m surrounded by walls of tall jungle. Staring ahead at a steep overgrown…
I wish I had taken ballet as a kid. The pirouettes I force myself into, avoiding seemingly inevitable collisions with scooters and cars, on roads…
I am sobbing as surreptitiously as I can in a scungy Indonesian bathroom, clutching two strawberry daiquiris bigger than my head. My cleavage is blistering…
