The Capacity to Hold the Life You Want
What does the life you want ask of you on an ordinary Tuesday? A Georgia visit, two toddlers and a question about capacity.
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Wander+Lost Noire / The archive
Vol. 01 · 15 stories · Estd. 2023
Essays · field notes · dispatches
The Journal
Travel writing with a point of view: personal essays, practical notes and stories about the places that changed the way I move through the world.
Fifteen stories about movement, memory and misadventure—what I noticed, what changed, and what followed me home.
Guatemala / Field note
Slow Traveling,
Slow Living
What slow travel means in practice—and why quality over quantity changed the way I move.
01 / Essays + personal notes
Stories worth
lingering over.
The stories I carried home, shaped by the places I wandered through.
Solo Traveler Blues
On loneliness, independence and refusing to wait for someone else’s schedule to live your life.
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My Grandmother, Nicole.
On grief, mental health, and the beautiful life I feel obligated to keep choosing.
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One Night in Naija
A 24-hour layover became a five-hour immigration stalemate—and a lesson I understood differently years later.
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Happily Ever Ghana
Sometimes the frog doesn’t become the prince. Sometimes he points you toward the life you were meant to find.
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Malaria Before Christmas
How malaria almost ruined my Detty December—and the people who got me back on my feet.
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PreCheck, please.
A Windy City misadventure with a surprisingly practical ending.
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Who’s a Peace Corps Volunteer Anyways?
What a Peace Corps Volunteer looks like depends on who gets to imagine the picture.
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Confessions of an Evacuated Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
On a Peace Corps service that ended abruptly—and why, eventually, it felt like it ended right on time.
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Useful things,
beautifully filed.
Practical notes from the archive, stripped of the usual travel-blog clutter.
The Wander+Lost
Noire
Wander. Lost. Noire. The original definition of the name—and the piece that started the archive.
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