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ktinseattle
- Aug 6, 2021
- 6 min
The Red Shoes
I found my red shoes in Paris. In Paris women walked everywhere. They did it in heels and flats and colorful espadrilles. They did it...
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ktinseattle
- May 22, 2021
- 6 min
Wildflowers
"How many nights had the ocean rocked me to sleep? How many times had I lain on the ground and felt its sustenance? How many times had I...
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ktinseattle
- Dec 8, 2020
- 2 min
I Traveled the Americas with 5 Canned Cocktails from Cutwater Spirits
Lime Vodka Soda: I don’t drink a lot of vodka so I didn’t really know what to expect. But I did expect to go somewhere exotic, the “Isle...
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ktinseattle
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
The Rabbit Hole
“Instead of killing himself, he travelled and wrote.” -Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene It began with Bourdain’s Kitchen...
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ktinseattle
- Jul 22, 2020
- 4 min
Snow Country
"The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country." --Yasunari Kawabata This is how Snow Country begins. The first line and...
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ktinseattle
- Mar 5, 2020
- 7 min
Permission Granted
What was it really like to spend a week in Fiji with Elizabeth Gilbert? Was it really that easy to hang out with her? Well, we didn’t...
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ktinseattle
- Feb 28, 2020
- 6 min
Easy Fiji
I went to a women’s retreat in Fiji because I wanted to spend a week on a tiny island with Elizabeth Gilbert. I knew that even if we...
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ktinseattle
- Feb 7, 2020
- 5 min
The Island of Women
“I could dive straight down now, even if I still couldn’t go that far. If I took several shallow dives, then I could risk a deeper one.”...
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ktinseattle
- Oct 23, 2019
- 4 min
Love Me in Between
This week’s talk at Kadampa Meditation Center was on understanding our mind of love. The monk said the definition of the mind of love is...
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ktinseattle
- Sep 26, 2019
- 8 min
Boat People
I’d heard the expression “boat people” before. Not referring to refugees, but people who work and live on boats. For the nine days I...
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ktinseattle
- Jul 29, 2019
- 6 min
What’s Your Dream?
In my early 20s when I was teaching ESL, a student told me his dream had been to come to America. He’d wanted it his whole life—or at...
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ktinseattle
- Jul 26, 2019
- 4 min
French Connection
One of the reasons I didn’t go to France a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago… was because I wanted to go with the right person. I...
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ktinseattle
- Jul 24, 2019
- 4 min
Better in Belgium
Remember the children’s book “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” where Alexander says he’s going to move to...
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ktinseattle
- Jul 19, 2019
- 5 min
Complimentary Minibar
I’ve stayed in plenty of nice places—some of which I’ve paid for financially, all of which I’ve paid for emotionally. I’ve stayed in big...
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ktinseattle
- May 24, 2019
- 4 min
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien: Part Two
I started to plan Paris. The funny thing was, as I reached out to European friends telling them that I was making my dream come true,...
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ktinseattle
- May 23, 2019
- 5 min
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien: Part One
I’ve wanted to go to Paris for as long as I can remember. In my childhood bedroom I had an Eiffel Tower statuette I'd gotten at the...
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ktinseattle
- Feb 7, 2019
- 7 min
Seeking, Searching, and Gratitude in the Sea of Cortes
Looking for wildlife is a funny thing. We go to certain corners of the world in hopes of seeing something we’ve only seen in pictures or...
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ktinseattle
- Jan 3, 2019
- 7 min
Finding Home in Under 11 Hours
The last time I went to Tokyo—en route to India—I had 30 hours. My aim was to visit old haunts from when I studied abroad 16 years ago...
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ktinseattle
- Dec 14, 2018
- 7 min
What Three Days in Hanoi Taught Me about Navigating Chaos
I’d been warned about Hanoi. Warned by folks I met in Bangkok and my tour guide in Laos that it was incredibly crowded, filled with...
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