Eat the world

I’m a writer living in Barcelona with my husband and two small children.

Barcelona is my New York.

It’s my Paris.

Everyday I think: “I get to live here.”

About me: it’s Calçot season, the spring onions are being roasted over open fire pits and smothered in Romesco sauce, but at the same time I daydream about those steamy, perfumed bowls of Khao Soi in Chiang Mai, or the snap of salsa verde on street tacos in Mexico. I’m settled but not. I’m home but still curious. I want to eat everything, do everything, figure it all out. I left a professional problem-solving job in software to take photos that make me happy, to write the stories about my life, and to document the things I find. And have babies. It all makes sense if you get close enough.

In 2014, my family and I were selected as Travelers of the Year by National Geographic. We got the news in Mexico, traveled to Spain, via Norway and had our photo taken in Girona by the talented Tino Soriano. We then biked with the kids through Spain, into France and over to Italy. We ditched the bikes and continued on to Croatia, Serbia, and finally Romania. I showed the issue to my son, on my laptop from our apartment in Transylvania and asked him, “Isn’t that cool?”

He said, “It’s a little cool,” while making the gesture of holding his thumb and forefinger together. It was about a half inch of cool. Give or take.

Read the full article here.

So, I write. I wrote a book. It’s coming out in the Fall of 2015 with Penguin Random House (Gotham).

It’s called Found in Translation. Here is what my publisher says about it:

One woman’s quest to learn Mandarin in Beijing, Arabic in Beirut, and Spanish in Mexico, with her young family along for the ride.

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My husband Drew and I made a documentary. It’s called The Wireless Generation and it’s touring in the US in the spring of 2015. See the trailer here:

Upcoming Dates

Feb 5, 2015: Seattle

Feb 19, 2015: San Francisco

Mar 5, 2015: Los Angeles

Mar 19, 2015: Denver

Apr 2, 2015: Austin

Apr 16, 2015: Boston

Apr 30, 2015: NYC

More info here.

I’ve been dragging my husband around the world since 2008 always with the promise that, “Yes, Drew there will definitely be hammocks there.”

There are rarely hammocks.

We have a nearly perfect record of traveling to the tropics and managing to find the one place that doesn’t have a hammock. Drew is quite disappointed, naturally. It’s become a “thing”. I’ve kept a loose account of our lives on the road at almostfearless.com and I’m also ~~wasting time~~ active on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.