To be honest, I'm still trying to figure this out as well, but I'll let you in on what I know so far. I am an insatiably transient Anthropologist, Writer and Entrepreneur. Growing up there were two things I loved most: words(reading and writing them) and watching and wondering where planes, trains and automobiles were heading and who occupied them. While writing is as natural as breathing to me, I didn't pursue writing as a career. Though I'm as comfortable in an airport as I am at home, and seeing new people and discovering new places energizes me like nothing else, I never signed up for a single study abroad program, took a gap year to travel or backpacked across any foreign lands.

What did I do, you ask? I did what many do, maybe even you. I settled. I conformed. I got a "real job" and a "real life" and had two very real kids. That vision that I'd once had that I'd leap up in the mornings and begin my day doing work that I enjoyed became non-existent. I sought happiness through kids and relationships, work or community service. While some of this was fulfilling, there was still a hole a mile wide that nothing I did could fill. Who I was inside and what I was doing on the outside were in congruent. I'd grown up with a bucket of dreams that was no match for a truckload of doubt and fear.

I then made the choice to live authentically. I've realized that for me, I value experiences far more than I do assets. I set out to create and rearrange my life on those terms, but there's a big divide between knowing and doing and I didn't get here alone! It often takes some catalyst to see the disparity between who you are and what you can be and have the belief that what you have inside you can bridge that gap.

I've come full circle and become who and what I wanted to be when I "grew up." I was always a writer, but with unleashed confidence I now share my work with the world. Having a multicultural background, I was fortunate to experience many cultures which shaped who I am and likely spawned my curiosity to see the world, accept the diversity in me and appreciate it in others.

My blog is my creative outlet chronicling my journeys. Part travelogue, part anthropology narrative, it tells my story and the stories of others through a love of culture, passion for travel and an adventure-seeking spirit.

Samone Loreen