I’ve been a travel journaler since I was in high school, right after my sister and I read Meg Cabot’s Every Boy’s Got One, which was an epistolary story told basically over Blackberry(!!) emails and the main character’s travel diary (which she got engraved at the airport?). We loved that book, so when we started…

I know people talk a lot about how “well this wasn’t on my bingo card this year.” And when I tell you that attending the Frankfurt Book Fair as a delegate for the Philippines was not on my bingo card, it really wasn’t. I had seen the application and considered it. But by the end…