Celebrate is a word few people currently attach to the culturally-challenged Columbus Day. It’s not the 1492 date that’s changed, but how we remember and reconsider it. And America isn’t the only country with such a contentious historic holiday. Australia’s national holiday, Australia Day, is attacked each year because it memorializes the uninvited arrival of […]
Holidays & Celebrations
Things I’ve Learned From Traveling With My Dad
My father rarely gets a thank you. Not because he isn’t the world’s greatest father (he is), but simply because I forget. I forget that the same hard-working man who earned money for meals and school supplies and family vacations is also the patient, gentle guy who loves me infinity times. And those family vacations […]
A 30th Birthday Abroad in Paradise, New Zealand
“It’s not too late to turn back,” I tested my boyfriend, as we stared glumly through the windshield. Streamers of rain dropped from sodden beech trees, obscuring our view of the rustic cabins ahead. On the night of my one and only 30th birthday abroad, we’d booked into the Paradise Trust homestead. Yet that morning, […]