As the end of the year is rapidly approaching, I wanted to highlight some of my favorite posts on this blog over the past year. This will be a little mix of the most popular, most commented, and my personal favorites! I found it a bit hard to narrow down the posts, so here’s a…
My first tentative steps into the social web was in 2008, when I was studying abroad in London for a year. Like many others, I started a “travel blog” to keep my friends and family updated on my adventures abroad. Little did I know that the small step into “public” blogging would lead to a…
This post is a bit late to the party — but I figure, better late than never, right? A few weeks back, a famous blogger named Heather Armstrong, aka Dooce, had a post where she talked about a sponsored trip to Bangladesh. She was essentially invited to go to Bangladesh for a week, take pictures,…
There has been a lot going on in the world recently, though I somehow feel disconnected from it all this time around. More on that later. But for now, please enjoy the following links: Bombs over Bombay, again – My heart breaks and goes out to all those affected by the latest bomb blasts in…
The social media sphere is permeated with those who dub themselves “Gen Y” and “Millennial” bloggers. Every day, I hear about young nonprofit professionals, the top young millennial/Gen Y bloggers, career advice for young twenty-somethings. Hearing a common theme here? For the “Gen Y” blogging crowd, youth is an obsession. Discussions revolve around the quarterlife…
I love, live, and breathe writing. But one of my biggest writing flaws is that I am unable to tell stories. I can write abstractly, philosophically, discuss my opinion, or muse on the latest news development. I can write poetry that captures my fleeting memories. But something I truly struggle with is writing beautiful, meaningful…
