I have a good excuse for why I only recently discovered the amazing town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Yes, I’m 16 years late to the party. I have a good excuse though. When Gilmore Girls debuted in 2000, I was just out of grad school. I was transitioning full time into the world of management consulting. Traveling…
This week I believe I may have sunk to a new low in work/life balance – I was blow-drying my hair while on a conference call. Seriously. Fear not, the phone was on mute and also on speaker – and I was following every word. I finished packing while on the next call, paid the gardener, and got…
Crafting the perfect out of office reply is an art form. Take basic information, mix with corporate culture (or policy), sprinkle in a bit of advanced email programming, and perhaps just a dash of “I’m on vacation and you aren’t” and you may have the perfect out of office reply. I struggle always with how much…
I’ve been keeping a low profile lately lest I lose my head. Interpret that both figuratively and literally. Figuratively, it has been a crazy eight weeks since we last left off with me crying at the end of a fantastic vacation. I’ve tackled 12 trips, wrangled several major projects in my professional, volunteer, and personal spheres,…
I am one of those emotional girls who does emotional things like crying on vacation. I cry when reading books. I cry when reading stories on Facebook. I cry watching movies (especially Love Actually). I cry walking through the arrivals hall at T5 at Heathrow. Every bloody time (blame Love Actually). So yes, of course…
With a tiny bit of planning, it can be effective to remote work from anywhere, even the Maldives. Okay… who the heck am I kidding? I can’t speak authoritatively on working from the Maldives. I may be the last travel blogger on the planet who has not been to the Maldives (and I have no…
I’ve always thought men had it much easier when it came to professional clothing. Suit, shirt, tie… done. Sure, perhaps more casual work wardrobes can add a bit of a snag. It might be tough to understand which types of slacks work for which occasion. Or how to mix a sports coat or sweater into…
Why do you travel? Its a question I’m sometimes asked – by neighborss, by friends, by strangers sitting next to me on airplanes, by the man across from the table from me on a first date.. Why do you travel? It seems like such an easy question to answer – and yet one that I have…
I recently stumbled across an infographic from Bon Appetit magazine that chronicled the millennial food obsession. While I’d love to think this was a mere page filler poking fun at the generation under me, it definitely strikes a nerve when it comes to the changing times with food. While I’m sure the “spending 14 times…
The world is flat. Okay, I know its not flat. But it’s small enough for me that the edges corral my own universe into a tidy package. It is a small world for me too. Never mind 24 time zones, 7 continents, or different languages. I often feel like the other side of the globe…
If R.E.M. had recorded what is arguably their most famous song “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” not in 1987 but in 2016, frequent flyer mile would no doubt have made the list of things Michael Stipe was ranting about. If I were to believe the frenzied…
Today I’m going to talk about the concept of a personal blind spot as well as give an omnibus update on what’s going on in my world (and also my plan to eventually get over my hump and start catching up on my travel talk again). For the last month I’ve been working through Baron…