What a Bhutan Running Retreat Taught Me About Mindfulness
On a foggy, wet Thursday afternoon in April, I tightened the laces of my trail running shoes, hoping that this would somehow save me from slipping on the spongy terrain. My first run in the tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan would be in the rain on a pine-scented dirt trail
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I Was an Extra on ‘White Lotus’—Here’s What It Taught Me About Thailand
I was about to get my head shaved. At the Dhutanga Insight Meditation Center—an all bhikkhuni (female monk) spiritual sanctuary tucked away in nature outside the bustling city of Bangkok—Punya, the head monk, patted me on the shoulder, silver scissors in hand, and asked, “Are you ready to become a
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I’m an Adventurous Travel Writer, and a Low-key Journey With My Parents Taught Me to Slow Down
The clouds were upside down—or at least that’s how they seemed to me. I was three years old, flying for the first time from the U.K. to Jamaica, looking down at the puffs in the sky below us. It was the first of many trips with my parents during a
What Marianne Faithfull Taught Me About Heartbreak
It bothered me that Faithfull was sometimes reduced to being addressed as the Rolling Stones’ “muse,” since her time with the band, however generative, was a small footnote in her own visionary artistic career. (Notably, she had to fight the Stones for years in court to earn her rightful co-writing
