I graduated from college this past year, five years of study and a degree that I love but have no idea what I’m going to do with. I live at home with my parents, my siblings and four cats. I work third shift on the weekends and in my spare time I run a photography business, cook meals, and do school (at home) with my younger sister.
I like to read. I dream in pictures. I blog a lot about what inspires me. I love to cook and collect recipes obsessively. The kitchen is one of my favorite places to be.
I have an amazing capacity for memorizing meaningless information. I’m a pacifist and pastor’s daughter. 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. This 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.
