Stroll and Speak | Your Guide to Mindful Travel

I once found myself wedged between a snorer with the lung capacity of a foghorn and a toddler determined to audition for the next horror movie. Somewhere over the Atlantic, I realized that the $20 earbuds I snagged at the airport weren’t cutting it. My ears were at war, and I was losing. That’s when […]

The first time I decided to venture beyond the familiar embrace of my coastal town, I found myself face-to-face with reality’s cruel humor. My suitcase was a hodgepodge of impractical items: three novels I’d never open, a sweater too thick for the tropics, and a phone charger that didn’t match my phone. I was the […]

I once embarked on what I naively called a “cinematic journey” through Europe, armed with nothing but my trusty smartphone and the naive belief that my artistic vision alone would suffice. I was wrong. What I ended up with was a series of videos that looked like they were shot in the midst of a […]

I remember the first time I tried to take a sunset photo with my smartphone. There I was, standing on the edge of the pier, balancing my phone on a precarious stack of driftwood, hoping to capture that perfect, Instagram-worthy shot. But reality hit hard when the phone toppled over, almost joining the fish in […]