A Queer Girl's Lifestyle Blog

Dawn broke as the van snaked around the mountain faces of Northwest Vietnam. In the pale blue light, we saw children in traditional garb...

I've been part of a wine club with friends from grad school for over 5 years now. The wine club has survived jobs starting and stalling...

Pennsylvania rocks. It rocks in the figurative sense of being super great, and it rocks in the sense that there are literal stones,...

In theory, I hate the beach. I don't like getting dirty from the sand. I don't like salt water. I don't like getting sunburns, and for...

This is the sixth Queer Martha treasure hunt that takes you to some of the most Parisian parts of Paris hidden in plain sight. Check out...

This is the fifth Queer Martha treasure hunt that takes you to some of the least French parts of Paris. Check out the Romantic Treasure...

My father's mother has always been something of a legend in my life. She died when I was about two years old, and I have no memory of...

Hello friends! I hope you are keeping cool in the godforsaken heatwave of sadness and suffering! I wrote last week about my cousin...

My favorite thing about Dublin was the pub culture. Every night, Rachel and I would push open a pair of heavy wooden doors, grab a stool...

We're back from Ireland! What an amazing journey it was. If you ever get the chance to hangout with 90 of your 10th cousins for a...

This is the fourth Queer Martha treasure hunt that takes you to some of the hidden gems of Paris. Check out the Highlights Hunt here, the...

It's a grey, rainy night in Philadelphia. A perfect evening to definitely not get out of bed. I am under covers with Rachel sleeping on...

One Monday night in late March, Rachel and I were stumbling through the streets of Shinjuku-2-chome looking for a warm place to rest our...

Rachel and I arrived home from Japan Thursday night, and I am excited to share our adventures with you. It was a perfect trip, and Japan...

We've been in Japan for a week now, and we have already decided that we want to move here. We just really want to live in a society that...

So, you have been planning a big vacation for several months, have you? You got your passport updated, you dropped your cat off at your...

My mother always said, "Everything changes once you hit the Poconos." She was talking about weather patterns, and I suppose there are...

Did you know that Jacksonville is the largest city in the contingent United States by land mass? I know - that's crazy! Did you know that...

He will be remembered as an urbanist historian, a genuine romanticist, a lover of Paris, a Balzac of the camera, from whose work we can...

Words are important. You know what is more important? Words that don't mean what they are supposed to mean. That's right, folks, we're...