Moments in sugar cane fields
Ever had those moments in time where you’re soaking up everything that’s happening around and wish you could just freeze time in that particular memory because you just don’t want the moment to end. You’re thinking of it. I can see the smile stretching across…
Just because I wear hearing aids doesn’t mean…
Dear hearing people, just because I wear hearing aids doesn’t mean I have bionic hearing. Although there was this one time as a kid that I thought I had superpowers because of my hearing aids. The world was always louder after a visit to the…
Slowing down at Papaya Playa Project
There were no poses in crystalline cenotes. No visits to “insta-worthy” locations. Just palapa-thatched huts dotting the jungle alongside a pristine stretch of the Caribbean sea. We spent our time in unplugged stone white rooms, whose entertainment was the occasional iguana on a distant rock…
Chasing fear in the Yucatan jungle
My eyes darted across the canopy. My legs were trapped in strips of leather and iron buckles near my groin waist. I looked up. My hands hurt from the death grip I had on the rope that connected my waist to the line. My eyes…
