Archive - The Preferred Edit

What a 5-Star Luxury Safari Taught Me

It had nothing to do with luxury. The opposite, actually.

Jul 16 • The Preferred Edit

The Other Side of Safari

The Real Cost Behind the Instagram Reel

Jul 5 • The Preferred Edit

June 2026

You Can Travel the World, but You Can't Escape Yourself

The day I got escorted out of Ireland's oldest library

Jun 21 • The Preferred Edit

We Went to a Bridgerton Wedding

And visited Ireland too

Jun 16 • The Preferred Edit

Learning to Roll Like a Ball, Not a Square

26 bags of vitamins and no hairbrush. The unravel of travel.

Jun 14 • The Preferred Edit

A Type A Girl Living in a Type B World

The 10 travel essentials that keep me organized on the road

Jun 9 • The Preferred Edit

Watching Other People Succeed: Is It Holding You Back, or Propelling You Higher?

Jun 7 • The Preferred Edit

I Went Viral on Threads With Four Words

I went to grow my Substack. What I got back was something more.

Jun 2 • The Preferred Edit

May 2026

The Inheritance

The one thing my late husband didn't leave me when he died

May 31 • The Preferred Edit

Getting Ready to Get Ready

What it’s like to get stuck on the decision highway

May 26 • The Preferred Edit

The Art of Walking Away Mid-Sentence

On knowing when enough becomes too much

May 24 • The Preferred Edit

The Expired Future

Grieving the life you never got to live

May 18 • The Preferred Edit

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