Category: Summer 2023
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Chapter 2: Ireland – Part II
Here I am, back once more, attempting to finish this seemingly endless, self-appointed project of mine… My return is partly due to the hint of autumn in the air today, and the nostalgia that comes with it. The back-to-school-ness of it all: romanticizing years past and the beginning of a new year. I’ve always tracked…
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Chapter 1: Ireland – Part I
24 April, 2024 (posted 70 days later…) I am sitting in what feels like an airport but is actually a jury assembly holding area because I was summoned for jury duty today. It feels very official and important to be “summoned” for something, but it also feels like I might live here forever now. Could…
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Epilogue – Part I
19 Aug 2023 Well, I’m back. Not, back, back. At least, not yet. Back, as in, hello, remember me, the ~blogger~ ? (You, to me: “please stop saying ‘back.’”) Today is my last full day abroad. Three months and one day ago, on the 18th of May, I got on a plane. Three months ago,…
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Prologue
8 June 2023 Exactly three weeks ago, I stepped onto a plane and my life was forever changed. And that, my dear reader, is how one might start a novel about a summer abroad. I, for one, cannot take that line seriously. The thing is, I know that my life has changed but writing a…
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Exposition
3 May 2023 Hi, hello, I’m really doing this. I do not feel great about the domain name, so, already off to a promising start. From an early age, I wanted to be a journaling “Dear Diary” type of person. I spent countless hours reading novels in journal format, particularly historical fiction for teens. I…
Meg in Transit 