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1. Choose hostels over hotels If you're trying to save as much money as possible while still getting the most out of your experience, book your stay at a hostel. Hostels are basically hotels but instead of booking a room, you book a bed in a room. So you could be living with 6 other …
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They shuffled into the senior center, straight to their seats around circular tables, like bees flocking to pollen. I wait until they register the unknown faces in the room. My presence grows like a burning candle, sending expressions through the air like wafting smoke signals. A current flowing between two cultures. I stare, they stare …
The cool stones were damp from evening rain and the golden light of the Piazza bounced off of shallow puddles. The soothing moon kept watch over the city. We sat on a bench, my friends and I, soaking it in with dormant phones switched off in our pockets and melting gelato in our hands. A …
I grew up as Irish as you can get. My parents’ family names, Mahoney and Collopy, originate from the cities of Cork and Limerick. Every St. Patrick’s Day we eat corned beef and cabbage with dry Irish soda bread and yellow Irish butter. My pale cheeks wear light freckles and I can’t last five minutes …
In Italy the sky looks a lot like home Peaks of light break through the clouds And unbound her from the ground She's running parallel with the train Mountains rising on the horizon up ahead Peaks and valleys dotted with terracotta houses It's gotten easier somehow here Today she wears rose colored lenses And doesn't …
I. Isabella peeked through the plastic blinds beside her bed, squinting her eyes at the blinding white world confronting her. Snow mingled with the city street outside, each speck of pavement and loose piece of trash slowly began to disappear. Quickly grabbing her Polaroid, she captured the blanketing snow. The photograph developed. The emerging brightness …
Start with roses and shiny boxes of chocolate, Maybe glasses of bubbly champagne and fresh strawberries. But don’t leave me alone in that liminal glow - Our hearts fresh and unknown. Take me deeper. Bring me wildflowers and a book picked just for me. Perhaps a bottle of red wine from 1983, Covered in storytelling …
Melancholy. Empathy. Joy. Gratitude. Excitement. These are the emotions that run through my heart during the last day of classes of my sophomore year at the little liberal arts college I attend. “Lift your head up. Leave your phone in your pocket. Look around you. What do you see? Who are you? Why are you …
As I was watching the sun dip down over Lake Champlain the other day, I couldn't help but think about the last days of summer slipping away. I wanted to share how I have been spending these last days. The first hints of fall are beginning to show in Vermont. Crisp air is upon us …
I just spent two nights, and three days in one of my favorite places in the world. Nantucket, Massachusetts. Every summer my family and I make the trip down to visit my brother who works on island and it gets better every year. My aunt, and my mom and I went down this summer for …
such sweet things 