With another new year upon us, I’ve been reflecting on what makes me happiest and if I am where I should be at this point in my life. Lately I’ve been struggling to feel like my positive, typically happy self. Since I am in my late-twenties, it seems like almost […]
As I stand in the airport store, not one package is recognizable to me. My flight has been delayed ten hours, and I am stranded at the Rome airport ill prepared with nothing to eat. I scour the few shelves of packaged food and find nothing. They have no fresh […]
As an Allergic Reactor to all tree nuts and peanuts, I have always stayed as far away as possible whenever I have seen them. There have been some articles recently about whether children and adults who have nut allergies, can actually properly identify the different types of nuts (article and […]
This morning I woke up from a terribly scary dream to realize that part of it was a bit real. In my dream, the building was on fire and it was hard to breath around the smoke. When I woke up, I could feel the tightness in my chest and […]
No Waffles or Chocolate, BUT a Splendid Trip “Can you tell me what is in the waffles?” I asked in Brussels at a restaurant where waffles were the ‘specialty.’ The man looked at my list with another waiter, and said, “I know we use margarine.” I looked at my chef […]
This week will be my first time traveling to Belgium with food allergies. I am excited to travel to a place where language shouldn’t be a barrier. I plan to spend the majority of my time in Bruges, which I hear is spectacular. My two substantial Belgian cuisine desires: I […]