My thoughts and feelings on whatever the heck pops into my mind.
If you’ve known me for more than five minutes, you know that I absolutely love the following things: Bravo, wine, pasta, Italy, and Halloween. Halloween is my favorite holiday by far–Thanksgiving and Easter are relatively pointless, IMO; Christmas is full of stress (did I get everyone enough presents?! Have I done enough festive, Instagram-able activities?!) … More Halloween: 35 Years of Amazing/Terrible Costumes
Like pretty much everyone else over the past 20+ months, I have been struggling. Struggling less than many but more than some, and perhaps not in the ways one might expect, but definitely struggling. I normally roll my eyes at posts like this on social media, but because it was emailed to me by a … More 30 Days of Gratitude (…sort of)
New York: My One True Love I never even liked New York. I grew up just a few miles from The City That Never Sleeps, and I never thought it was anything special. Never planned on working here, definitely never planned on living here. Granted, up until I was 22 I only ever went to Midtown — the tree in Rockefeller … More Relationships with Cities
After working in New York City for 2+ years, and living in it for 1+ years, I have decided I am an expert on all matters of Manhattan. With this expertness comes great responsibility, including the need to bestow upon you, my good people, proposed rules for the New York City subway system, rules which I feel … More Rules of the Subway
It’s the holiday season, and since I’m feeling a bit better about it this year than last I thought I might share with you fine folks my all-time favorite Christmas songs. And by “favorite Christmas songs” I mean favorite VERSIONS of favorite Christmas songs—I am very, very, very picky about who is singing to me … More My Grown-Up Christmas Playlist
This is just a quickie post to let y’all know that I, Katie Boe, have recently been published—TWICE!—and am very excited about it. 🙂 Check ’em out! Sul Cima del Mondo: The 5 Best Views in Rome This Is Crabland: Five Ways to Eat Crab In and Around Baltimore
My dear friend and fellow Roman, Sam, and I recently stumbled upon some amateur’s blog post offering her six best travel tips. We cannot help but disagree with everything this imbecile says and propose our own travel tips instead. Our credentials? We had the best semester study abroad anyone’s ever had and are thus experts … More Travel Tips from Real Travelers
Katie Boe 