Starbucks, Yonganli, Beijing, China

I woke up to the blaring sound of Chinese folk music coming from outside; it felt foreign. Where am I? What time is it? If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? I checked the mirror – nope, just the bed head version […]

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The Café, Taj Hotel, Boston, MA USA

Finishing up the work week enjoying lunch with my grandmother – the plan sounded perfect for a Friday afternoon. Yaya, as we call her, was visiting for the month from Palm Beach and staying at the Taj Hotel in Boston on Arlington Street. Due to my traveling, I hadn’t seen her for over a year, so it […]

Henrietta’s Table, The Charles Hotel, Cambridge, MA USA

The Microsoft Outlook Calendar invite arrived in my inbox with a date, time, and place for our meeting: 12:30pm at Henrietta’s Table.  Excellent. I had never dined at Henrietta’s Table, but had heard fantastic reviews. My only excuse was that I went to high-school in Cambridge and after graduating, tended to avoid the Harvard Square […]

Aura, The Seaport Hotel, Boston, MA USA

I got the email halfway through breakfast: “Would you like to join Jim and Marianna for lunch at Aura?” I knew we had a 1pm meeting, but my plan was to eat my big breakfast laid out before me and have lunch after we met, so this curveball threw me for a loop. Then I […]

Hilton MSP Airport Mall of America, Minneapolis, MN, USA

 “Looks like we won’t be making it to Jackson Hole tonight,” my father said in disappointment as we scrambled last minute to find flights that might work. Delta had delayed our flight from Boston several hours, which meant we were missing our connection to Jackson, Wyoming. Evan was not a happy camper; stuck on connecting […]

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Jimmy John’s, Louisville, KY, USA

What a long day – I couldn’t have been happier and more content walking around with the guys after a fantastic day and night out in Kentucky. Everything on the trip had gone better than planned and we were all glowing with satisfaction. Well, that was until we realized it was 4am and our stomachs […]

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