Tag: Travel

  • Arriving

    Arriving

    January 3, 2021

    I want to tell you how I got here, and what I’m doing, and what’s in store. In the weeks leading up to my departure, the days passed in a blur as they often do. Time seemed to be moving exceptionally fast and I had that heightened sense of awareness for everything around me because I knew they very soon wouldn’t be. 

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  • When You’re the One Left Behind

    When You’re the One Left Behind

    Journal Entry Written September 15, 2012 

    Karina has gone to England and is most likely not coming back until December 18th. I remember thinking, on the night before she left, that this was my last night with the Karina I grew up with. She’s not going to come back the same girl. She’ll have a taste for freedom and maybe never even want to come back and I’ll probably break my heart.  She’ll do things I can’t even imagine doing and meet people I’ll never meet.  She’ll move forward and when she comes back, I’ll probably still be in the same place. 

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