Dear Life
Faces of Happiness: Lost and Found (and Lost Again)
“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the…
Continue readingVoices of Sonder: Nathalie Jäschke
Nathalie Jäschke is a biologist with a specialization in animal-assisted therapy, who has an insatiable sense of wanderlust. Homefree for the past three years, she has recently lived in Australia where she worked on an organic farm and trained a pig named Georgie to visit the elderly at the local nursing home. I talked with…
Voices of Sonder: Ashlee Bell
The first time I saw Ashlee Bell, we were at a small coffee shop close to our campus in rural Illinois.…
Voices of Sonder: Lania Knight
Lania Knight is a mother, a writer, and a traveler. She ran away from home at the age of 16 and…
Voices of Sonder: Danielle Ellison
Danielle Ellison is a writer and nomad who grew up in West Virginia. She’s lived in South Carolina, Nashville, Boston, and Northern Virginia – until…
Voices of Sonder: Lex Vasquez
Lex Vasquez is a filmmaker, photographer, and writer from Blue Island, IL. We met last year and instantly bonded over a…
Voices of Sonder
This life is crazy. Overwhelming, intense, and crazy. It’s so easy to lose track sometimes. We get caught up in routines,…
The Eternal Wanderer: Why We Travel
It will be big, a revelation, bigger than anything you’ve known before. You have to go. It will make sense eventually.…
In the Name of Euphoria: I’m Optimistic, not Naive
I look at a world of possibilities. I find beauty in the ugly. I am the master of my thoughts and…
Project Vanlife: a Life for a Living
So… you’re going to live in a car? Yup, that’s what it basically comes down to – even though I hope…
The Wait (and what’s next)
My grandma says we spend at least half our lives waiting – for the bus, for a friend, for ourselves to…
On Goodbyes that feel like Beginnings
My time in Italy is almost over. Two more nights and we’ll be on the road again, driving back north. When…