loneliness

Home sweet San Francisco: On travel, life, and coming home

November 28, 2015Sketches - North America, Stories - about life

San Francisco is teaching me that home can be a person, but on a greater level, home is all of the people in our life, whose combined presence forms an emotional foundation just as significant as any physical one.

Conversations with Micaela, part 1: Do you ever get lonely?

July 10, 2012Stories - about travel

When people find out that I usually travel alone, so often the first question they ask is, “Don’t you ever get lonely?” What surprises me is the terribly concerned look on their face, as though loneliness is something to be afraid of.