When I was a kid, summer felt like it lasted an entire year. From the end of May until the first week of September, each day crawled by as I did activities at summer camp, jumping into chlorinated pools and twisting Chinese staircase lanyards taped to wooden picnic tables. It made the coming of sch…

My fiancé visited New York in February, and while we were brainstorming things to do, I put together an ultimate fun list—basically a mix of places to visit, food to eat, and friends to meet. This isn’t one of those must-see NYC guides you always see online; it’s more of a personal roundup of my fa…

As someone who doesn’t drive, I tend to stick close to Metro-North or subway lines when traveling. This often means that places just two or three hours away by train (but a much shorter distance by car) end up on my Google Maps bucket list—destinations I dream about but never actually visit. But re…

I've been going back and forth on whether to share this, but I just have to! In July, I had the incredible honor of attending my dear friend Noor’s wedding in Jordan, and I can’t quite put into words how much this trip has meant to me. 
It's not just about the wedding itself, which was beaut…