israel and water and peace and poop
About a week ago, I had the amazing opportunity to ride along on a jeep trek throughout the Judean Desert. I packed my...
new places, new faces, still coffee
I blame my mom for my extreme coffee addiction. Every morning before school, she would lure me out of bed under the promise of a warm,...
beginnings and middle parts thoughts
My stomach is bouncing somewhere above Greenland, already corroded by anxiety. My lungs already dried and compressed by the recycled...
greece- photos and musings
Greece was absolutely amazing!!! (I'm sure I don't have to tell you that though since everybody who goes there falls in love with it, but...
shabbat and rest and restlessness
Among my family's pots and pans and stacks of magazines on the kitchen counter there were always two candlesticks rising above the rest...
why now is the best time to travel to the middle east
It seems like every time I tell a friend or family member that I will be studying abroad in Israel for the Fall, they don't understand...
firefly music festival and commUNITY
trendy hype vid or pseudo-intellectual ramblings? or both! Marian Hill, Foster the People, Logic, Arctic Monkeys, Lil Wayne, The Killers,...
comfort zones and going to college out of state
I was lying on the hardwood floor of my yoga studio, curled up in the fetal position, trying to blink away tears. It was the summer...












