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What I’ve Learned from my “Staycation”

Drinking from a yellow pina colada flavored snowcone in Lexington Market

I haven’t had a staycation in the traditional sense, where you clear your schedule, plan a spa day at home, or book a weekend in a fancy hotel nearby. But ever since creating Baltimore Fun Hacks in February with G, I’ve felt a little bit like a tourist in my own city every weekend. It’s …

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Advice to New Grads

Graduation

Six months after I myself graduated college, I wrote a post giving my advice to new grads. I essentially said “the thing you do right after you graduate is not as important to Your Future as you think it is”. Not bad, but I’ve had a few years now to contemplate what advice I would share …

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The Liebster Award: 11 Facts About Me

A big thank you to Kat from Kat Is Travelling for nominating me for the Liebster Award. According to the rules, I have to answer the 11 questions she set forth and nominate my own group of travel bloggers with a new set of questions. Here we go! What’s your funniest story from travelling? Funny? …

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Hey There, Intern: YOU DESERVE MORE

Dear fellow interns of the world, You deserve more, and I don’t just mean monetarily (BUT THAT TOO). You are a skilled human, probably with a university-level degree or two, and you deserve to be treated like a valuable asset to someone’s company or organization or project because you are doing a task or tasks that …

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The Case of the Returned Traveler

I spent the past year living a stationary life in America. I realize I didn’t write much, and it wasn’t necessarily because I didn’t have anything to say, but because I didn’t deem the things I had to say as blog-appropriate. It was a rather dark year for me, mood-wise, for a host of reasons I …

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Sex and Travel

Travelers always have the best sex stories, right? “I had sex in a hammock in a cave after rock climbing, kayaking, smoking weed all day, and swimming in phosphorescent plankton all night. You just can’t getter better foreplay than that.” Right! ***Just thought this post could use some really awkward AND SUPER SEXY photos to …

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On Participating in Society

My mom once said to me, “Michelle. If you don’t want to participate in society, then DON’T.” Maybe the expected and natural response to such a threat would be to say “well of course I want to participate in society, don’t be ridiculous” and then you go get a job, dutifully pay your rent, get …

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