Archive - Permission Slips

12.30 | Permission to Grow: 10 lessons from my travels I'm taking with me into 2024

It's not New Year's Eve unless you cry. How a year that started with a panic attack turned out to be one of my best yet.

Dec 30, 2023 •

A New York City bar that even Covid could not shutter

Peter McManus Cafe, one of the city’s oldest, kept its doors open as the pandemic descended with a vengeance. Then, it met an even more formidable foe…

Dec 7, 2023 •

November 2023

11.30 | Permission to feel déjà vu: When will we stop getting Covid?

Hi, it's me. Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth. I've missed you. Here are a few words I typed while recovering from Covid...again.

Nov 30, 2023 •

11.05 | Permission to Cry Over Pasta: They don't hate your guts, they're just Italian.

Reflections on rejection, and why it hurts so much. Also, are you mad at me?

Nov 6, 2023 •

October 2023

10.17 | Permission to Observe: Yom Kippur in Rome's Jewish Ghetto

This one's for the history buffs: A glimpse into the oldest Jewish community in Europe, and an inspiring story of light in a time of darkness.

Oct 17, 2023 •

September 2023

9.29 | Permission to Change: Welcome to the rebrand!

My body's changed after two months of travel. I write about navigating that change — between meals of pasta and nightly gelato runs in Italy — with my…

Sep 29, 2023 •

9.13 | Swimming with Harry Styles*

An ode to the ponds at Hampstead Heath, and notes on Doing Less. Written from the sweatiest café in London during a heatwave.

Sep 13, 2023 •

9.01 | When things go wrong

Life is not going according to plan. I'm still in London, my reporting is leading me in circles, and...I got my foot run over by a car. But still, the…

Sep 1, 2023 •

August 2023

8.20 | What is loneliness, anyway?

One month in, I reflect on the highs and lows of spending time alone. Typed from the train back to London from Paris, with fingers swollen from a long…

Aug 20, 2023 •

8.09 | What am I even doing here?

Fellowship, freelancing and freaking out about it all.

Aug 9, 2023 •

July 2023

7.30 | Playing favourites: 10 days in London

Musings on plasters, humps and impostor syndrome, written from the room I'm renting in Islington.

Jul 30, 2023 •

Notes from my gate in JFK's Terminal 4, two hours before my flight even boards. Meet my alter ego: the Neurotic Traveler.

Jul 20, 2023 •

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