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  • 2 Questions Every Girl is Asking Herself
    1M 28.5K 84

    Every girl is wondering about two things: 1. What do I want to do with my life? 2. What kind of person do I want to marry? So I traveled around the world looking for answers. Five men, three continents, one prophecy... And an appearance on Chinese reality TV. I thought fairy tales only existed in leather-bound b...

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  • 30 Before 30
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    30 Before 30. Thirty days in Europe. Thirty inspired moments of adventure to live it up before my 30th birthday. Just the idea of it gave me purpose. Here was a reminder that I could choose a new path, even if it was only for 30 days. A little background first. Ten years ago, if you had told me that at 29, a normal we...

  • Adventures in South East Asia
    238K 2K 43

    After spending a year teaching in Thailand, I longed to travel with only my quirky self to keep me company. My journey started in Myanmar where temple cycles and village treks exposed me to the past and present of this intriguing nation. I returned to Northern Thailand for a volunteer experience and some of the most i...

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  • Wayward: Fetching Tales from a Year on the Road
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    Wayward: Fetching Tales from a Year on the Road is a hilarious and heartfelt ride around the world, wherein the author eats dog, obsesses about chewing gum, gets stranded on an island, does dirty things, reveres rock n roll and muses about everything from death to Star Trek to the President Obama to jail time. Now ava...

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  • Prayer Beads on the Train
    37.5K 607 20

    I write about New York - and everywhere else. This is a selection of what I call my "little bus stories." I write on the New York City Mass Transit Authority - also known as the MTA, also known as the bus and the subway. My first collection of stories is available at the NY Transit Museum Store, and online at Amazon...

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  • Scars: Steps To Queenism
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    Scars: Steps To Queenism, is a highly inspirational and authentic story of an innocent child's world growing up; not only as an 80's baby, but having to practically raise herself in the streets of Boston - alone. From having parents and grandparents that suffered extreme drug and alcohol addiction, to losing the woman...

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  • Pretty Little Butcher: Memoirs of a Female Thoracic Surgeon
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    {a Wattpad featured story} Everything in this book is real. Minor details have been altered to protect those who know me. I'm a female thoracic surgeon and even though I complain about my job all the time, I never regret choosing this career. What you see on TV isn't entirely accurate, and this is my version of the tr...

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  • Travel Diary
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    This is a collection of my poems. Each poem is dedicated to a city that I traveled to.

  • Travel Drabbles
    31K 2.3K 137

    After quitting our jobs, my partner and I hopped on a one-way flight to Asia to spend six months exploring. Come along for the ride! Journey through historic and busy China, beachy and rural Thailand, temple-tastic Myanmar, delicious and sleek Malaysia, the stunning and surprising Philippines, jaw-dropping, adventure...

  • Ante Meridiem
    260K 21.2K 19

    A dialogue short story about the things we wake up to that remind us there are still things in this life worth waking up for. ante meridiem - [adv. & adj.] "before noon;" Abbr: A.M. Or a.m. [credit to owner of image (not me)]

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  • My Extremely Noisy Mind
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    Used to be Book of Random Thoughts. May include rants, epiphanies, random song lyrics, quotes, ideas and stuff that happened to me that I wanted to share to the world. Yeah. Now that I think about it, this description is more like a part of this book rather than a description. Sorry, I'm getting off topic here. Read i...

  • Espresso Love (A Dystopian Japan Novel) #Wattys2014
    1.2M 22.3K 99

    In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dream worlds and reality itself, in a soul-searching journey for love, for identity and what it means to be human. But all that remains is a peculiar cof...

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  • Nights In TOKYO (A Travel Memoir)
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    A combination of a novel, a memoir and a travelogue, both fiction and non-fiction, a globe-trotting adventure full of sentiment, music, low budgets, trains, encounters and lifestyle, the author confronts his memories - and the miracles - on the page, and embarks on a new trip to celebrate Christmas in Japan in 2014. T...