About

Hi, I’m Emily. I’m 25 years old. I’m a college graduate. I live at home.

I decided against a teaching degree, and have been a full-time homeschool teacher for over five years. I dropped out of the pre-veterinary program, but am the kind of person who has a hospital tank for her fish. After five years of study, I got my degree in Geography-Anthropology…and after graduation I started a photography business.

Go figure.

I like to read. I dream in pictures. I love to cook and collect recipes obsessively.  I have an amazing capacity for memorizing meaningless information. I worship in the Eastern Orthodox Church and am still trying to figure this whole convert thing out.

I love to travel. I’ve wandered around the streets of Paris, celebrated well into the night at a wedding in Romania, seen the sunset over the Aegean, worshiped with the Patriarch in Constantinople, danced around a fire in Africa, and looked into the face of AIDs. I did my anthropology field work in northern Quebec and I once spent several hours stranded in a Hungarian airport. Last summer my brother and I spent a month volunteering in, and falling in love with, Tanzania.

On Kilimanjaro (July 2009)

Stephen and I in London (August 2009)

Someday, I want to get married and have kids, but for now, I’m just being the best big sister that I can be. And if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be right here.