Hella Helsinki 

Helsinki: where men under 40 look like architects and women over 40 look like they own an art gallery on the upper east side. It’s a land of natural blondes with asymmetric cuts and sparkling blue eyes rimmed in the coolest frames. Ain’t no Warby Parker up in here, y’all. I’m talking Smörboll and Ödmjuk […]

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Rishikesh

Rishikesh is known as the world’s capital of yoga. It’s a holy city, so there is no meat or alcohol served in restaurants or markets. Monkeys and cows freely roam the streets. Right now it is 9am and 95 degrees. I am sweating my way through the fourth and final week of yoga teacher training […]

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NEPAL Y’ALL

You can’t really get any farther away from Los Angeles than Nepal. For starters, LA’s omnipresent Teslas and Priuses are replaced with rickshaws and motorbikes, electricity operates on a shared circuit (so you may or may not have power at any given time) and your $4 latte is now a $0.30 masala milk tea. Nepalis […]

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SRI LANKA

Oh beautiful Sri Lanka! If you’re looking for an adventure off the beaten track, get thee to this incredible island. There are very few tourists outside of the main historical sites, so Anne and I were frequently the only foreigners in local restaurants and shopping areas.  What to do in Sri Lanka? Well, I do […]

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Free the Nipple

After the week of silent meditation showering with frog poo and bathing in my own sweat, I threw up my mudra hands and said “treat yo self!” – so I popped a few Dramamines and hopped on a ferry from Koh Samui to Koh Phangan.  When we docked, the waves were too choppy for the […]

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Shut the f*ck up

Holy hell, y’all. I’ve just gotten through the most difficult and most rewarding week of my life. I know – big statement, but you come to me drunk off the stupor of a week-long silent meditation retreat  in the mutha-fuckin JUNGLE and then we’ll talk hyperbole. Here’s where I’ve been the past seven days: Dipabhavan […]

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