Planning of Another Kind

A few weeks after Ahmad and I had the most important conversation about our future together and where we were going with the relationship, he gave me two notebooks. The first one was nothing fancy: a thick purple cover with unlined pages so I could scribble ideas for a story I had in mind. I’m ashamed of…

A List of Things I Plan on Accomplishing in My Year in Maastricht

I’ve never needed an excuse to write lists. I even have a notebook for them- a notebook emblazoned with the logo of the initiative I used to work for while in college to remind me to take things seriously. And now that my countdown to the great big adventure is in the single digits, my obsession  fondness for list…