The Peripatetic.

Header image provided by the keen-eyed, steady-handed, talent-gushing Shirin Sahba.

Image courtesy of Lenny Pridatko

Mostly, we lived in Wilmette, IL and Haifa, Israel growing up.  I attended Barnard College, graduated and moved to China.  After a year, I published a feature article on sustainable development in Xi’an for a small, small magazine.  Writing was always a dream career of sorts, but I focused on finding a job that would let me learn more about China.  I found one.

The purpose of this site is to do that, before I forget it all, and, in the process, share with those who could not be there.

At first, blogging was a slice of sanity in a mad search for a job and graduate school, but I found both (more or less).  While freelancing as a writing consultant in New York for half the time and volunteering as a (re)construction worker at a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Haifa the other half, a year went by.

The year was more interesting and less certain or stable; never knowing what will come after each month and never having that 9 to 5 that I thought all 25-years-olds were supposed to have took its toll.  More “jobs” and less “job,” so to speak.

Over the summer of 2009, I ended up in the Republic of Colombia, and it definitely warrants at least a summer of study and exploration.  There will be many more words on the Southern state of Nariño, which may have more biodiversity than the Amazon, but no one knows just how much since guerrilla fighting has kept researchers at bay.  But more on that — and writing for the governor‘s office – to come.

Then it was back to New York, where I was surrounded by the best group of students I have yet to come across.  Their stories are also starting to appear here.

And now on to London for a thorough dose of economics and a chance to swap stories and create new ones with the world’s greatest hobbyist photographer.

And so it goes: glimpses of lives caught quickly and processed slowly . . .