The Only Thing
May 29, 2021
The only thing we can do is let the people we care about know that we care. It’s up to them to decide what to do with it, but once we do that thing, our work is done. Let it rest. Let it be.
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If There’s One Thing I Know: The Quarter-life Crisis
February 5, 2021
This is my first blog post in a year and a half. As we all know, 2020 was a doozy. After going through some personal challenges that I wasn’t willing to share (the advice “write from scars, not open wounds” comes to mind), I sit here from my couch in Asheville—a sentence I never once … More If There’s One Thing I Know: The Quarter-life Crisis
Long Blacks and Dinky Cups: Coffee in Oz
June 16, 2019
All right. It’s time. We need to discuss coffee. It’s important to note before I go any further that I love this country. The landscape, the light, the relaxed atmosphere that would make even a crazy mother-in-law, awaiting to become a grandmother if only her daughter-in-law would stop working so darn much and just get … More Long Blacks and Dinky Cups: Coffee in Oz
Me Know English Good, I Thought
June 12, 2019
One could automatically deduce that being in a country where everyone speaks English would be relatively simple for a foreigner who also happens to speak English. Most of my conversations with people, which have been in, well, English, have gone something like this: Person: Hello how are gobble dee goolly lah? Me: *Smiles* I’m sorry, … More Me Know English Good, I Thought
Boredom Abroad: 3 Months Down Undah
June 5, 2019
If you take a look at my Instagram (without reading the captions), it looks as if I have spent the last 3 months in a mystical fairyland where nothing could ever go wrong. The sun is always shining, the birds always chirping, and I wake up on a pink cloud surrounded by dancing palm trees … More Boredom Abroad: 3 Months Down Undah
My Favorite Things May 2019
May 31, 2019
This is my first post in a month, the last having been April’s Favorite Things list. My head has been in a million different directions, which I will share in time, but I couldn’t let May go by without sharing SOMETHING. So, from my Airbnb in Trinity Beach, Queensland, my new town of residence, here … More My Favorite Things May 2019
My Favorite Things: April 2019
April 26, 2019
It’s a gorgeous day Down Undah and made even more gorgeous by this new series I deem “My Favorite Things”. It’s a free-for-all over here, where I name some of the books, words, places, clothes (am I a fashion blogger now? God save us.), anything my little heart desires in hopes that something will pique … More My Favorite Things: April 2019
The Scotland Series: Conquering Ben Arthur or Something Like That
April 22, 2019
I awoke the morning of May 19th, 2017 groggy and sleep deprived. This didn’t matter though, because I was waking up with the sun in order to experience a dream of mine that was finally about to come to fruition. On this beautiful May morning, four out of five McFarlands headed out at the crack of … More The Scotland Series: Conquering Ben Arthur or Something Like That
1 Month Down (Under)
April 4, 2019
I’ve been living in a foreign country now for 35 days. The language barrier, the stark cultural differences, my inability to blend into the crowd… all things I do not really deal with that much. I’m in Australia, our English-speaking neighbors who couldn’t live farther away if they tried. “Doesn’t that mean they’re not neighbors?” … More 1 Month Down (Under)
What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do… I Think
March 27, 2019
Next year I turn 30. If you had told teenage me that I would be nearing the end of my third decade of life without a clue as to what I’m going to be, I believe the words “loser” or “bum” or “poo for brains”* would have come to mind. Who doesn’t know what they … More What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do… I Think
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