Some of the best parts about traveling the world? Doing awesome things like touching elephants. This is me, looking amazed the first time I fed an elephant. In case you were wondering, baby elephants rolling around in mud are exactly as cute...
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32 New Things: Drink Butter Tea
Last week, I drank butter tea with an exiled Bhutanese political leader. Also, we watched Cartoon Network with his grandson and ate the Bhutanese equivalent of jalapeno poppers. I was prepared to hate butter tea (as anyone who's read Three...
31 New Things: Eat Dinner In a Fancy Restaurant By Myself
Would you believe that this 31 New Things goal nearly gave me palpitions? Yes. How silly is that? As I walked into The Lexington, I was literally compiling a list of solo accomplishments in my head to bouy my confidence ("Moved to New Zealand...
31 New Things: Walk My Cat On A Leash and Be All “What?”
I would like to preface this post by telling you that if my cat Putin was a human, he would be Niles Crane. He would probably have a variety of imagined ailments, he'd be allergic to peanuts, he'd be married to shrew of a woman and he'd definitely...
31 New Things: Watch Rocky
Despite all of my pop culture references here on Yes and Yes, there are huge, gaping holes in my knowledge of movies that were released before 1996. I spent the majority of my childhood building forts and writing overly involved stories about...
31 New Things: Go to The Rollerderby
Let me be honest here, friends. This new thing? I did it, like, five months ago. It was a second date with a gentleman who, I'm afraid, didn't make the cut for a third date. After he told me that he was bad with money and got stoned on the daily,...
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