Here it is. I don’t know what happened in Costa Rica. A lot of my readers are friends with me, so already have the context to this. Halfway through my trip last week, I lost my debit card. Misplaced, stolen – I don’t know. I didn’t notice until I was in Monteverde, a mountainous region…
Author: Melissa Randall
Brave
“Melissa…” my Mom’s voice trails off. I see her hands tighten around the steering wheel, an action typically triggered by careless drivers on the thruway. But today, it’s inspired by what I’ve just explained to her. After a few days of chattering about my trip up to Maine, one phrase hooked her. A phrase that she…
Ask DriftylandMissy: Help, I Want To Have A Baby!
Note: This email has been revised to protect the identify of the person who submitted it. Dear Missy, I need to have a baby. Don’t read that as I want to have a baby, or maybe someday I should have a baby, read it as “I need to have a baby.” I feel that it…
How To Plan A Sideways Movie Locations Trip
Sideways. A movie about avoiding responsibilities, Southern California, and wine. When this movie came out, it struck a chord with wine-os everywhere. Myself included. Now, decades later, I still think of this movie pretty fondly. It makes you want to spend winding afternoons in the California countryside, sipping a Malbec (I’m also not fucking drinking merlot.)…
7 Times This Icelandic Newspaper Was Funnier Than You
When they tweeted an article with this awkward photo. I don’t know who this guy is, but he’s probably not jazzed about this. When they asked who to send nudes to. In a July 2017 newspaper, Icelanders asked the vandals who carved “send nudes” into valuable Icelandic moss where exactly they wanted their nudes…
10 Things To Do in Blönduós, Iceland
“There goes that m-th–f—ing ice cream truck!” Dan, one of our gracious hosts, yells at a passing truck as we’re driving to dinner. Beautiful scenery, small town living, angry kria (artic tern), and missed opportunities with the town ice cream truck…this is everyday life in Blönduós. Blönduós is a small farm town in Northern Iceland,…
Sono Solo | Travel Essays
I’m in a cocoon, nestled in my duvet and a thick blanket. Something stirs, and I open my eyes. I can only see the silhouette of a man. He’s sitting in the driver’s seat of my SUV, hot steam bellowing out of what looks like a stainless steel travel mug. He takes a sip. “Who….”…
Who the fuck would want to eat out of that fridge?
So, I did it. I slayed the grocery monster, and somehow got out of Lowe’s for only $122, alcohol included.
My $122 Grocery List
This is my $122 grocery list for the month of April. I’m not going to go into quantities because I need some privacy, dammit. Frozen Frozen Raspberries Frozen Chopped Spinach Kitchen & Pantry Honey Organic Chicken Broth Grape Nuts Cereal Angel Hair Pasta Extra Virgin Olive Oil Starkist Salmon Creations Pouch Sea Salt Ground Hazelnut Coffee…
The surprising thing I spend a ton of money on.
So, I was talking about how much money I spent a month, right?