The Eternal City has pasta on every street, so finding the best cacio e pepe can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. On vacation in Rome, my girlfriend and I tried some of the top-rated cacio e pepe the city had to offer and found a clear winner.
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The closest I’ve come to reading fantasy in school was being assigned Animal Farm, twice. . . .
Hesitation is the action killer, the dream killer, a stranger and a friend to no one. It tells our worst selves about our best selves, the ones who set goals that seem impossible to reach. This is for those stone-hard days when your goals become an ominous wall, a rock face to scale with no
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I’m going to be switching up my content a bit. While I love sharing my travel stories, I’m a writer first (like the book kind). I’m also making a video game, and I usually have tons of small projects I’m working on that my blog posts never mention. These projects are part of why I
My summer abroad has been full of rash decisions. Some have been amazing, and others have led me to terrible travel experiences. Today, I made another rash decision, and I feel like it’s a good one. Spontaneity is a word I had to look up to spell. Don’t judge, we’ve all been there, and I’ve
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1 I drove fast with the wind in my hair, down the Oregon country road in a flurry about how life would be so different in such a short time. Actually, I didn’t have hair, just a beard… The wind was in that, though, and everything felt momentary, all about to change so quick and
This world is complex, and the internet reflects this on a screen, an electronic mirror. It can show you the pitfalls of its abundance and its opportunities in the same sentence. It all depends on the viewer, to some extent. Yet some content does not challenge the viewer and finds it sufficient to keep them
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Looking at it made me scared and sad at the same time. Part of me wanted to go in, part wanted to run.
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1 In my philosophy class last spring, we dipped our toes into religion. It was short, sweet, and full of contrasting ideas. What I ended up writing about was Divine Command Theory through an odd lens: tigers. Let me say that for me, someone who excels in written thought over spoken communication, in reading retention
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2 I’ve been here three times before, at the bookends of trips long and short. This time, Rome meets me somewhere in the middle of my journey abroad with no end date reserved, and it feels different. I’m staying with my girlfriend right next to Termini station, a dingy neighborhood that reminds me of my
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