A few good places to begin.
Welcome to Coffee & Check-Ins.
I started this blog in 2015, just before a family trip to Paris and India. For years, it was mostly about travel. But after more than a decade of writing here, somewhere along the way it became less about where I was going and more about what I was noticing—the transition going from travel → lifestyle → personal essays.
Now I write about cities and stars, careers and friendship, love and physics, poems and unreal feelings, and all the ordinary moments that occasionally turn out not to be ordinary at all.
If you’re new here, you do not need to start at the beginning. Start wherever something catches your attention.
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Places to Begin
Or Explore my Themes
Being Human: Love, friendship, heartbreak, sincerity, grief.
Becoming: Careers, dreams, birthdays, growth, change.
Wonder: Science, stars, art, poetry, big questions.
Elsewhere: Travel, cities, hotels, adventures, check-ins.
Little Things: Coffee, rituals, objects, and ordinary moments worth noticing.
Or Explore my Mini Series
Stay for Sunday
If you’d rather have the next story come to you, join The Sunday Check-In—a little note about something I’m thinking about, something I noticed, something I loved, and one question to carry into the week.
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I’m glad you’re here.
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