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Here's three things I learned about Georgian people during my trip to Batumi, a beautiful coastal town in Georgia where the beaches are lined with pebbles and the air is filled with the salty scent of the Black Sea. 1) They really know how to enjoy life. Here, life is meant to be a pleasure: Drink the wine. Stop and smell the roses. Bask in the sunshine. Smile at a stranger. Make the city - and your life - beautiful. Fall in love. Woo your loved one. Breathe. Eat the bread an
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I honestly can't remember the first time I ever travelled alone. Perhaps it's because I grew as the child of an expat life - I took my first-ever flight when I was younger than the age of three, although obviously I was accompanied by my parents then! - and, as a third-culture kid born to two parents who weren't of straight-shot ethnic origins themselves, the world has always felt like a rich tapestry of places to explore, rather than one bound by borders that I was fearful t
#MeToo
#MeToo. For the time I stood in a crowd and had a man press himself up against me, feeling his hot and unwelcome breath on the back of my neck as he tried to place his hands on me, so that even after I turned to face and stop him and the coward bolted, I took four showers in a row in the hottest water I could stand when I went home that night. I still felt like I could not wash the feeling of his disgusting touch off me. For the time in high school when I saw a man at a beach
Five Tech-and-Fitness Innovations You Need To Know About Now
When you think of the stereotype of the fitness junkie and that of the tech geek, they're hardly a pair that go hand in hand. Yet the two have long been interlinked, with technology playing a much bigger role in sports than some people might initially think. Sure, the varsity jock and AV nerd depicted in most high school coming-of-age movies would certainly suggest the opposite - that the two worlds are more like chalk and cheese - but in real life, they form a pretty damn be
The Inspiration: Michelle Harvey
Saying no to the idea of a traditional career path with an office-based full-time job takes guts, but for 28-year-old pastry cook Michelle Harvey, it's paying off. "My life feels like one big side hustle; however, food and health are the focus of all [of my] ventures," she says. During half the week, Michelle works as a pastry cook at Eat Well Restaurant. In her spare time, she handles recipe development for a vegan snack start-up, and occasionally teaches bookbinding. She's
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