Writer. Traveler. Tea Drinker.

“I’m looking forward to living in a small space and not having so much stuff to worry about.” My husband Ryan said this to me the other night at dinner and I agreed. Saying goodbye to our stuff won’t be sad. It will be a relief. It’s not like we live a huge expensive lifestyle. [...]

If you’ve never seen Disney’s Alice in Wonderland animated movie, then that title makes no sense to you. In the movie, Alice stumbles upon the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and they are celebrating “unbirthday,” that is, any day that is NOT your birthday. But yes, today is my Birthday. I turned 33. My big plans [...]

Last week, at lunch, a friend of mine asked a questioned in a way that no one else had, despite months of planning, saving, and talking about it.

“Why China?”

I just bought our plane tickets to Shanghai today. For two one-way tickets from Newark, NJ to Shanghai, China we paid a mere $725. Yes, you read that right, only $725 and that INCLUDES all taxes and fees. Each ticket was only $362.50. It might sound like we really lucked out, but the truth is [...]

I really hope we get to see something like this in China. I mean, who knew pouring tea could be so athletic?! (Thanks to @mightyleaf for pointing this out on Twitter.)

Some of you might know that I am a tea reviewer over the Tea Review Blog. It doesn’t pay, but it really fun and a get a ton of free tea samples in the mail to review. (At last count I had 125 different kinds of tea in my house!) One of the fun things [...]

I’m not going to miss much when we move to China, but I am going to miss this little fuzz ball sleeping next to me while I work….

Got a call from the post office yesterday and was told I had an “express package.” I was happy to see, as the clerk handed over the thin envelope to me, all sorts of Chinese characters on the front. It was our contract for teaching English, sent from our future home of Lin’an! It wasn’t [...]

While I’m working on designing my website I stumbled upon a good color website.  I’m terrible with picking colors that look good together so this site was a big help! It doesn’t have every color combination known to man, but it does have over 250 different color combination swatches which was way more than I [...]