This southern town, Goris, has been hiding the sun from me for days. I can hardly stand another day of all clouds. It’s a good thing I’m here with a best friend, or I’d shrivel right up. Still, I have loved late nights watching The West Wing with Zoe, and yesterday sitting with her at a [...]
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goris grey
Posted in armenia, food, travel, yerevan, tagged personal, travel on June 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
healing
Posted in food, reading, usa, tagged ann patchett, bel canto, cadbury cream egg, peace corps, peace corps volunteers on March 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I have never concentrated so hard on walking. The brace is off as of today. My shrimpy little leg with the still swollen knee is free like a wobbly newborn calf. Walking from the hotel to CVS, from the Kennedy Center to Georgetown, I almost yell down at my leg, “CONCENTRATE!” Left, right, left, right, [...]
cold
Posted in armenia, food, winter, tagged armenia, food, glen weldon, journaling, life, personal, pig skin, pop culture happy hour, sickness, snow, tonsils, winter, writing on January 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This will not be the happiest of updates. Last night, still sick, I actually stabbed my journal while writing because I couldn’t get all my angst to quietly come out on the page. Then I scribbled a big “F—!” on the bottom of the page and called it a night. I’m sick. I’m worried. I’m [...]
another new year in armenia
Posted in armenia, food, friends, holiday, milestones, my town, peace corps volunteers, toasts, tradition, winter, tagged friends, holiday, life, living abroad, new year, new years, personal, small towns, snow, tradition, travel, weather, winter, winter wonderland on January 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
On the last night of 2009 I was sitting with my best Peace Corps friend, Zoë, talking late into the evening about New Year’s resolutions. We almost missed the New Year, and with moments to spare we ran outside with pots and pans to ring in the new year with a metallic clamor. This year [...]
good, really good
Posted in armenia, autumn, food, friends, hiking, landfamily, village, tagged armenia, autumn, canning, european, europeans, fall, food, friends, hiking, inspiration, journal, kurtan, local, nature, personal, photography, travel, village on September 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I’ve been in that catch-up-with-normalcy phase that happens after your mom makes a whizbang journey across the earth to see you. I feel like I used up all my language skills on my mother and for the last week or so can’t seem to construct a full Armenian sentence. I’m feeling the weight of my [...]
slow roll
Posted in food, home, milestones, travel, tagged !!!!, excitement, family, food, joy, mom, mother, photography, strange food, travel, travel photography on September 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was handed a drink the other day with these little eyeballs floating around in the juice. I wondered where I can find said drink for the upcoming Halloween party. I mean, look at all the eyeballs! In totally unrelated news, my mother just pulled out of the driveway. She called me to tell me [...]
bill nye for adults, daisies, more puppy photos, etc.
Posted in armenia, food, friends, hiking, landfamily, my town, spring chicken, tagged armenia, coworkers, cute puppy pictures, daisies, exercise, friends, hiking, living abroad, peace corps, photography, puppy, radiolab, travel on June 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
You know when you email someone you haven’t seen in a while, and you have one million things to say. You end up writing something that sounds so disjointed but filled with all the things you would try to bring up in conversation when you saw them. This is one of those kinds of emails, [...]
in full up-swing
Posted in armenia, food, friends, spring chicken, summer, tea, tagged armenia, exercise, food, fruit, hiking, peace corps, perfect day, puppy, summer, travel on June 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If you’re keeping up with my ol’ blog, you may have noticed some roller-coastering. Well, folks, we are in full upswing now! Clearly there was the I Can Make Refried Beans Discovery. And really, there’s so much more. Observe: It’s Sunday afternoon. I clip Spring Chicken onto the leash and walk out under a blue [...]
biggest news of the entire year
Posted in food, milestones, tagged accomplisments, cooking, favorites, food, living abroad, mexican food, milestones, news, peace corps, self-indulgence on June 16, 2010 | 9 Comments »
I made refried beans. Hmmm… perhaps you aren’t reading this correctly. I MADE REFRIED BEANS! Alright to be fair, some of you haven’t been around me enough to know that bean burritos are my staple. I’ve been eating them since the womb. No food makes me quite so happy as cheese melting on beans, as [...]
