Mental health is a privilege, until it’s not

This piece isn’t about travel, but about a film that left me thinking long after the credits rolled. I felt it deserved a space here. It took me two weeks to gather the courage to watch Straw, by Tyler Perry (spoiler alert!). I hesitated to watch it because of everything I’d seen on social media.Continue reading “Mental health is a privilege, until it’s not”

The beggar and the xenophobe

On the Christmas eve morning in 2022, I landed in Budapest to spend the holiday season with my partner’s family. This Christmas was different. It was the first one we spent with his 84-year old lovely grandma post-Covid, and I wasn’t thinking as much as I used to in the gifts I would give, butContinue reading “The beggar and the xenophobe”