April 17, 2015

Just taking stock and feeling thankful! I’m looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend with Nick. We’re planning to cook food together, and I hope we can do…

April 13, 2015

There is no way for me to describe New Zealand other than “surreal.” I could not believe how much beauty surrounded us everywhere we went, how delicious the…

April 5, 2015

Nick and I just got home from New Zealand, the absolute best trip we’ve ever taken together! Before I start writing all about it, I wanted to jump…

April 2, 2015

I’ve been on a huge reading kick lately! Instead of dedicating a post to each of these books, especially since I didn’t particularly love all of them, I thought…

March 29, 2015

I can’t believe we are here! This has been such a perfect honeymoon so far. I am just in love with New Zealand – the people, the food,…

March 27, 2015

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg takes an in-depth look at the little-documented, yet very common practice of raising girls as…

March 25, 2015

Up on the North Shore of Oahu, on a rare piece of untouched land surrounded by the Kualoa Mountain Range, there is a 4,000 acre ranch. It’s a place where…

March 23, 2015
eat the street

So I just discovered the absolute perfect date night, and the perfect place to try a ton of local Hawaiian food. I am not sure what took us…

March 20, 2015

When I started blogging, I kind of became overwhelmed with how much information there is out there, on everything from ideas for posts to the best plugins to use….

March 18, 2015

Literally off the beaten path, on a side street in Honolulu that I would never think to turn down, Side Street Inn doesn’t look like much at all from the…