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“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world, you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life and travel leaves marks on you.”

—Anthony Bourdain

  • The nature of all mothers

    My planes bound for Newark, then Brussels and finally Sicily leave this afternoon. Part of what draws me to this island is that one doesn’t just find themselves in Sicily – that being said, that is exactly what Sicily is doing for me. I am in search of parts of myself, to get reacquainted to…

  • Life can be incredibly insensitive

    I am not there yet. Not on a plane, or even in a car driving to the airport. I am still home. I booked this adventure back in April before I left Sicily having spent only eight days on the island. I had, like many of us, stopped traveling. I also stopped traveling because I…

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  • How do you mend a broken heart?

    Life can break your heart. My adventure in Sicily is my best attempt so far at learning to live with my broken heart. Your heart, like all hearts, including mine, can learn to live being just a little bit broken. Because we can’t live or love until we are prepared to have our hearts broken…

  • NOT cramming for this test

    As a student did you stay up all night before a big test or major paper was due? Or did you make sure you didn’t have the anxiety of cramming it all in by pulling an all nighter? I have lived long enough and made it through enough muck on wits alone to say I…

  • Welcome to Gray’s Academy Blog

    Adventurously aging I decided today would be the day to start writing my travel blog. I wrote and edited until I was satisfied with what I had written, knowing this is not some literary masterpiece. There will be typos and grammar errors. I pushed publish and poof! It disappeared. Now, several frustrating hours later, I…