By February, the grey had settled in so deep I could feel it behind my eyes. I needed sun, warmth, and a place where winter was someone else’s problem for a few weeks — and somehow, the Maldives kept pulling at me until I finally booked the flight. I landed to find myself standing over … Read more
I never took a gap year. I went straight from high school to college to a career, doing every sensible thing in the right order — and somewhere around 32 I realized I’d been meaning to see the world since I was 17. The Maldives was always the place, the one I’d pinned and bookmarked … Read more
The week my company went fully remote, I opened a map and asked a question I’d never seriously asked before: if I can work from anywhere, why am I still sitting in this apartment? My finger drifted south, past coastlines and island chains, until it landed on a scattering of tiny dots in the Indian … Read more
After our youngest left for university, the house got very quiet very fast. My partner and I looked at each other over dinner one night and said, almost simultaneously, “So… where do you actually want to go?” Without much deliberation, we both landed on the same answer: the Maldives — not for the overwater bungalows … Read more
