Fashioning an inspired life
Toy town, cannabis haven, and endlessly charming with its beautiful canals and crooked buildings, Amsterdam is the place I’ve (more or less) lived for five years and a city I can come fairly close to calling home. This being the case, I’ve collected quite a few favorites from this gezellig city, and I thought it was high time I compiled my Amsterdam short-list (in no…
For coffee lovers in Amsterdam, there’s no shortage of specialty coffee shops to choose from. Yet even with such a wide selection and new cafes popping up all the time, it can still be surprisingly confounding to find one that checks all the boxes. That’s why I was happy when the folks at The Coffee Virus reached out to me to check out their cafe. Being a…
Sometimes you just want five questions with someone. Five questions to delve into a topic they’re an expert on, to go deeper into something you’ve been wondering about, to learn more about a certain facet of a person that intrigues you. Five questions as a portal into another world, learning through five question osmosis. Or at least, I’m someone who wants that. It all started…
Sometimes I find myself dwelling on all the time I’ve wasted. On how behind I am at everything in life and how far ahead everyone else seems to be. Whether it’s how long it took me to finally get a good accountant, or to redesign my website, or to work out issues in my relationship. Whatever it may be, I end up kicking myself for…
This is the Tokyo you always hear about. The technicolor, tech kaleidoscope of anime, manga, video games and bright lights. The crowds of people you have to navigate through, and without a little patience, can leave you feeling flustered and overwhelmed. The bursts of noise escaping from the pachinko game centers as you pass by, the constant flurry of things demanding your attention. 10x more…
Sometimes I wonder what it must have been like to travel before mass tourism. Before guidebooks, before the internet, before Trip Advisor, before data plans and SIM cards. Before globalization and the rapid spread of trends around the world. When discovering a place meant actually viewing and tasting and experiencing customs and cultures so radically different from your own for the first time. When it…