An Old Soul with a Hungry Heart

Who I am

A Wisconsin girl at heart, South Korea expat and continuously curious soul.  My mom told me my grandmother remarked, "there's something special about her" at a young age, and I'm beginning to think she was right.  Never one to do what everyone else was doing, choosing instead to forge my own path.  This mindset has lead to friendships, experiences, travels and passions my younger self could have never imagined.  A self-proclaimed old soul and ambivert, I'm quiet yet talkative, energetic and calm.  There's so much floating through my mind I often share some of it here. 

Passion for a little bit of everything

I used to think it was a problem I found a new passion before perfecting the last, but I've since found it's more fun to be curious and passionate than committed and bored.   From my ten year yoga practice, marathon training, world travel, teaching English and now yearning for the days of old, I love to dabble in things.  Finding and sharing passions as they come, but not being afraid to close doors to those no longer serving me.  

   I've Got the Travel Bug

To say I have a case of wanderlust would be an understatement. I'm always hungry for more and have pleasure in calling the world my home.  Nearly ten years ago I began what was supposed to be one year away, but the spark started even before that.   Beginning with a semester abroad, my early travels paved the way for what has now become a way of life.  I've taught English in classrooms across Asia, bused about Europe, road-tripped the US in a 15-passenger van, and fallen in love time and again, with countries, cultures and people I've met along the way. 
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”     – Pico Iyer​