A routine check up at the OB/GYN could not be that complicated, I reasoned. Besides, nowhere in the United States does a specialist visit cost $16.
travel
disney world
HAVE YOU BEEN OUTRAGED BY THIS YET? Unfortunately, you're probably angry for all the wrong reasons.
travel
I’ve learned that all I need to get through a situation is myself. And the only thing that can ruin me is death. Everything else is manageable.
travel
A list of stuff I will just start keeping in my bag at all times, probably in that suit flap thing where people with real jobs keep their nice outfits.
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DIY,
travel,
packing,
trips,
advice,
julieanne smolinski is a lunatic,
UTIs,
baggage of the emotional and non emotional variety
Apr 1, 2013 at 10:00am | 222 comments
lists
Books, boots, pretty things to look at -- my tastes are always so predictable.
ihtm contest
It took almost exactly a year of him living on the road, one year of nightly Facetime, and one year of people sympathetically saying “it must be hard,” before it finally clicked and we realized that the life we were living made absolutely no sense.
caves
I accepted an invitation from a family friend, Dave, to join him an expedition to explore what locals call the "yoni cave."
surprises
Like, what if I really had to poop or something, only to come home to a surprise party? That wouldn’t be a very fun party.
civil liberties
I’m not going to be party to any “security” that in actuality is based on nothing more than institutionalized bigotry and acculturated fears.
bedhead
Had I known, the morning I left home at 17, it would be the last time I'd have a space like that for some time, I wonder if I would have gotten up.
children
About that family that got kicked off a plane due to a toddler tantrum...
los angeles
Los Angeles, I'm yours.
dating
Would you allow a wealthy stranger to fly you away for your first date? I almost did.
bookshelves
Who knew Diane Keaton would be responsible for inspiring me to rethink and redesign my small but meaningful home library?
istanbul
If you think romance is dead, you can always fly somewhere it isn't.
travel
When the going got too tough, I realized I wanted to get going.
going abroad
When I travel, I desperately want to be thought of as a local.
beverly hills
If you were airlifted straight to Rodeo Drive, you’d have no idea the United States is in the grip of an economic meltdown; you’d probably think it was a wealthy, happy, healthy country.
sailing
The last time I learned something completely new was that First Aid course in '05, when I nearly killed the CPR dummy. So with the advent of this sudden crash course in pirate, my noggin was all, "UNSUBSCRIBE."
air travel
Given the fact that travel is much more of a chaotic pain in the ass than it used to be, I figure anything I can do to streamline the process is probably a good idea.
la
Like most wildly creative people, Cat lives by her own rules. Have you seen "Get Him To The Greek?" Yeah; Cat is Aldous Snow and I'm Aaron Green.
americans
"I think Americans are fake," someone told me recently while I was out having drinks. I have a version of this conversation at least once a month in the Netherlands.
