Author: Claire

  • Why don’t you adopt me instead?

    As I write this, I am about 3 years in the soul-wrenching process that will hopefully allow me to adopt a child. How I break that piece of information to people is always a bit of a mind-twister – just the opening sentence of this post took me a dozen iterations. And it’s not just… Read more

  • The science of meticulous travel planning

    I cannot believe it took me so long to visit Guatemala. It started a bit like a box-ticking exercise: last country I hadn’t somewhat visited in Central America. I was on a work call one afternoon in late August, not being overly useful, or engaged for that matter, and I was doodling. At the bottom… Read more