Tag: travel

• My recent winning short story

  February 3, 2025

  This short story, titled “The Gardens,” won the January 2024 short story contest at Winnie & Mo’s Bookshop. The prompt was, “Your favorite memory of 2023.” Approximately 1,000 words. It was pouring in London. We’d made it to just one bookseller and a sandwich place wedged behind the… Read More

• Daunt Books: a London bookshop

  October 9, 2023

  On a rainy afternoon this past July, I insisted my husband accompany me to one of the UK’s most famous independent bookshops in London. This is what we discovered. There is a certain romanticism associated with the atmosphere of London that I never understood until I walked the… Read More

• The story of an old college car

  May 15, 2023

  A little over two years ago, an old white car sat in a rundown used dealership lot. It had an old battery, a broken jump seat, and the faint smell of cigarettes. A broke college student saw the listing online and ran to the dealer for a test… Read More

• Trash in the unlikely places

  June 9, 2022

  Since my last entry, I got engaged, got married, and moved to Portland, Oregon, with my husband. We’re both involved with summer internships. He’s at Toyota doing supply chain things. I’m at Pacific Seafood doing social media things. It’s been adventurous and blissful and so, so chaotic. Yesterday… Read More