Sri Lanka surpassed every expectation I had. I’ve moved on to my next destination now, but I’m still talking about it, which I think tells you something. I arrived braced. I had lived in India and visited Egypt, and I knew what it felt like to stay on guard in a place that asked something…
Read MoreThis episode is a reflection on what shows up when women travel alone in midlife: the excitement, the loneliness, the questions that don’t get resolved, and the pressure we feel to explain our choices. It’s not about copying someone else’s way of traveling, but about noticing what gets stirred when we see another woman living differently so that we can each choose what feels right for us.
Read MoreThere was a moment in Oman last year. I was standing in a shop, waiting to buy chocolates, clearly there, clearly next. Someone else walked in and was served immediately. Nothing catastrophic happened. And yet I could feel the heat rise up in me, because I’ve been noticing this pattern for a while now, and…
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This episode is a reflection on what shows up when women travel alone in midlife: the excitement, the loneliness, the questions that don’t get resolved, and the pressure we feel to explain our choices. It’s not about copying someone else’s way of traveling, but about noticing what gets stirred when we see another woman living differently so that we can each choose what feels right for us.
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I went back to Japan twelve years after living there — same country,
completely different person. This episode is about what I noticed
when I stopped trying to optimize the experience and started paying
attention to the small decisions I was making. The ones that no one
else would notice. The ones that turn out to matter most.
I was on a hill in Camiguin in the Philippines, and I was scared. It was during a motorcycle tour of the island and we had stopped at the Stations of the Cross, a long path that winds up a hill. I had begun climbing, but at some point during the ascent, my fear of…
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This episode is a reflection on what shows up when women travel alone in midlife: the excitement, the loneliness, the questions that don’t get resolved, and the pressure we feel to explain our choices. It’s not about copying someone else’s way of traveling, but about noticing what gets stirred when we see another woman living differently so that we can each choose what feels right for us.
Read MoreThis episode is a reflection on what shows up when women travel alone in midlife: the excitement, the loneliness, the questions that don’t get resolved, and the pressure we feel to explain our choices. It’s not about copying someone else’s way of traveling, but about noticing what gets stirred when we see another woman living differently so that we can each choose what feels right for us.
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This episode is a reflection on what shows up when women travel alone in midlife: the excitement, the loneliness, the questions that don’t get resolved, and the pressure we feel to explain our choices. It’s not about copying someone else’s way of traveling, but about noticing what gets stirred when we see another woman living differently so that we can each choose what feels right for us.
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This episode is a reflection on what shows up when women travel alone in midlife: the excitement, the loneliness, the questions that don’t get resolved, and the pressure we feel to explain our choices. It’s not about copying someone else’s way of traveling, but about noticing what gets stirred when we see another woman living differently so that we can each choose what feels right for us.
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