My hand was trembling as I put my phone down.

3. They call mountains in Scotland ‘hills.’ So if anyone asks you to go hiking on a hill, you have been warned, it is not a hill, but something much larger and more exhausting.

3. Go on a date…or 6

“So I get asked to do things. All sorts of things.”

Hi, I love you: I’m bored, talk to me.

Hairdressers are just where the compliments begin! “I would die for your hair color” is only something we hear about…Oh, I don’t know, 7 times per month?

Staring back at me was a Groupon issued by LaserTouch Aesthetics in Soho.

Go for a stroopwafel (the most delicious cookie EVER) at the Albert Cuypmarkt — or you can get them at many cafés in Amsterdam because they go so well with coffee.

Why can’t people live in harmony?

You always feel as though you’re being overlooked by your romantic interest of choice for that one person who’s just a little bit better in all these random, little ways.

When did it become okay to start labeling a non-diagnosed, perfectly healthy woman crazy? For hundreds of years, “female hysteria” was a common diagnosis routinely made exclusively in women who exhibited symptoms such as sexual desire, shortness of breath, and my personal favorite – “a tendency to cause trouble.”

When everyone has equal rights, we all come out ahead.

The French pride themselves on being romantic, and for good reason.