Monthly Mood: Feeling Feelings tears, that vietnamese cheer of encouragement when you catch a wave, hanoi street food, therapy. traveling with katie, farewelling katie, haplessly dragged into nasty currents and drama. accepting that the problem isn’t me. [su_spacer size=”40″] [su_spacer size=”40″] new nepal vlogs 3 passes + ebc | kathmandu—khongma la 3 passes + ebc | ebc—gokyo [su_spacer size=”40″]… Read More
Monthly Mood: Clean life rule number one is definitivelyalways ask the surfer tryna get in your pantsif he marriedgot a gf [su_spacer size=”40″] [su_spacer size=”80″] [su_spacer size=”40″] [su_spacer size=”80″] [su_spacer size=”80″] always! [su_spacer size=”40″] [su_spacer size=”40″] Monthly Mood: Clean [su_spacer size=”25″] i think i am finally clean.—t swift [su_spacer size=”40″] [su_spacer size=”40″] I’m at the point in my… Read More
Sustainable Habits From Seven Years Of Solo Female Travel Our warming planet has completed seven laps around the sun since I first stepped foot on Kenyan soil and changed my life with #solofemaletravel membership. Having spent the recent years in South Asia, festering heaps of plastic waste have never been more in my face. [su_spacer size=”40″] [su_spacer size=”40″] Sustainable Habits From Seven Years Of… Read More
What Is More Beautiful Than A Bat? warning: the photos in this post may upset the reader [su_spacer size=”15″] day 1610 sri lanka [su_spacer size=”10″] what is more beautiful than a bat? nothing. truthfully. i watched you fly in, dark shifting shapes circling, lost, trying to get out. like me trapped in my mind. i took my time to get to the… Read More
My Mixie And Me ‘My mixie’ refers to the multiple countertop blenders I have come to know and love who helped make me into who I am today. My main mixie was purchased in Rishikesh and accompanied me to Parvati Valley and down to Gokarna. Our monogamous relationship lasted seven months. [su_spacer size=”40″] [su_spacer size=”40″] My Mixie And Me… Read More
A Brief History Of Vivian Chasing Calories My devout love for all things food has been a part of me for as long as I can remember, quite literally. [su_spacer size=”40″] [su_spacer size=”40″] Before I was able to form my first memories, my parents titled me 无底洞 (wú dǐ dòng), or ‘bottomless hole’ in mandarin. Their paradigm example of this hole is… Read More
Monthly Mood: ’Tis The Season To feast at weddings, rub charas, and be festive with the Hindu gods. [su_spacer size=”40″] [su_spacer size=”40″] Monthly Mood: ’Tis The Season [su_spacer size=”20″] New content… new About page old about page made into a post: About Vivian Alive TBT: Diwali Delights [su_spacer size=”40″] Happy 11 11(: After seven shaves last year, my hair turns… Read More
Falling In Love With India’s Finest Aloo Parantha Every morning in the quiet, four o’clock murk of a village outside Dharamshala, a humble, slightly balding man begins to stir from his sleep. Potatoes are boiled. The dal of the day, chili chutney, and whole wheat dough are carefully prepared. Everything is loaded onto a scooter and he’s off. [su_spacer size=”40″] [su_spacer size=”40″] At… Read More
Ghanan And Ivorian Lives Matter Facts & Figures The global chocolate industry makes over $100 billion in sales each year3 [su_spacer size=”20″] Two-thirds of the world’s chocolate is supplied by West Africa, namely Ghana and Ivory Coast3 [su_spacer size=”20″] 2 million West African children do dangerous chocolate farming work.4, 7 Children regularly handle machetes; most have scars on their… Read More