MUSING
A (True) Story About A Traveler Who Hates Commitment
Once upon a time, there was a girl. We’ll call her Schmanjali. (*Editor’s note: this name and story are completely fictionalized so any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.) (*Editor’s second note: I’m lying.) Schmanjali was a really fun...
How To Plan A Wedding In Two Weeks (There’s A Trick)
Good morning again, LITMO Lifers! I am so happy to be back writing and sharing my new adventures with you! Yesterday, I came back to writing to you after a long hiatus. When you heard the reason though, I’m sure it all made sense – I got married! And I talked a little...
How To Have A Fun Marriage: Get Naked As Often As Possible
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that one Monday before our wedding, my own personal superhero Jonathon blew off his beginning-of-the-week plans to come over and naked tie dye with a freaked-out bride (me). I also promised that you’d hear about it later. Well, it’s later...
The End Of Justification
Justification, to self or to others, is bullshit. Let me start over. Lately, inconsistency and I have been pretty good friends. Well, Internet inconsistency anyway. The act of blogging, or Youtubing, or social media-ing….these things haven’t come consistently or...
To Love Is An Act Of Rebellion
To love is an act of rebellion. In this world of us, them, borders, walls, autonomy, chains, openness, lies, the act of loving is an act in defiance of all we are conditioned to do and be. To love does not mean just to love romantically. To love means to love those...
Here’s Why I Think We Sometimes Lose Friends When We’re Happy
Since we’ve been married (just about four months now!), both Jonathon and I have watched in surprise as certain friendships have fallen from our lives. I’m a bit more of an all-over-the-place-social-butterfly than he is, so I had a big circle of close friends, then...
Are Great Minds Born Out Of Just Being Sick Of All The Bullshit?
Are great meditative minds born out of just being sick of all the bullshit? I don’t consider myself a great mind by any stretch – but I do think I have a tendency to question what I’ve been told or see around me. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have quit my job to travel...
The Internet Is A Bullshit Cesspool Of Competitive Mediocrity
I haven’t written in a long, long time. And I suppose, that got to me a bit (well, not NOT writing, just the idea of having a weirdly unfinished blog on the internets). So I wanted to take some time to gather my thoughts and talk for a second about why I stopped...
Happiness Isn’t A Static Concept (So How Could Anything Else Be?)
I’m not very consistent. Readers of The LITMO Life will know that this is true of me and everything. I’m not consistent about blogging, I’m not consistent about YouTubing, I’m not consistent about what I want to do for more than one moment in time. Throughout the time...
What I’m Doing Now & What’s Coming
I want to make the world a better place. This isn’t a secret, I’m a total hippie. In that vein, I’d like to welcome you to the new LITMO Life. If you’ve been keeping up with my extremely sporadic blog posts, you’ll know that I’ve been struggling a bit, not just with...
