hometown

When I was younger, a friend invited me to move to Canada for six months to work as a waitress in Banff. I jumped at the opportunity, and within a couple of months, I’d resigned from my job in journalism, sold most of my worldly possessions, and said farewell to…

Portland, Oregon, isn’t perfect.It’s not particularly diverse, and most restaurants close way too early for anyone under the age of 60. The “Pacific Northwest freeze” is a real thing: People here can be simultaneously too nice and impossible to befriend.When I left Portland in my early 20s to travel the…