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“Kelly, what’re you talking about Christmas for? It’ll be alright, just get some more sleep,” Adelle murmured to me at around 3:30 a.m. in the morning. It was the day of my second cousin Mairead’s wedding to her fiancé Robin, and I had apparently…

Where to start when describing my adventure in Russia? I’ve had a few glimpses of the biggest country in the world and learned it is not single-faceted. Most of my time has been in St. Petersburg, but I’ve also visited Veliky Novgorod, an old haven…

On my first day in Madrid, I looked around, eager to be overwhelmed by Spanish, but instead found myself running into a sign, part of a campaign against homophobia, that read “Stop Odio” (Stop Hate) in various places throughout the city. I quickly…