Hi, I’m Meg!

Welcome to my blog. I’m so excited to have you here!

To start, let me tell you a little bit about myself:

I grew up in a small town in southern Maine along with a chaotic family of 2 moms, 2 dads, 4 brothers, and 2 sisters (the classic modern family). My childhood was peaceful and turbulent, but I spent most of it with my face in a book, dreaming about adventure.

I broke free of the small-town life when I moved to NYC for university. My first significant travel experience was when I studied abroad in China for one whole year (the best year of my life). Since then, all I’ve wanted to do is just see as much of the world as possible and learn all there is to know about everything.

So far I have backpacked across Southeast Asia, Europe, and South America. I’ve had solo adventures in so many places, some of my favorites being the Amazon Rainforest, Egypt, walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, hitchhiking in China, and moving abroad to London for grad school.

I consider myself both ironically and un-ironically to be a bit of a “neo-hippie”–that is, a new-age hippie. Peace, love, and all that. I’m currently based in DC working in anti-war organizing + campaigning. I love it, but there is so much to do. The war machine is alive & thriving.

If you want to get involved in the anti-war movement, check out my resources on waging peace or send me an email at [email protected].

This blog came about pretty spontaneously. I decided to start it mid-COVID pandemic, laying on the beach on a cold spring morning that was so foggy I couldn’t even see five feet in front of me. I was bored, depressed, and I needed something to dream about.

If you’re confused about the name, “musingly” is a word that means to think a lot about something, which I’m overwhelmingly guilty of. All we have are our minds at the end of the day. We are nothing but our conscious awareness.

Anyway–

I’ve always been unflinchingly aware of my mortality and for most of my life assumed it was because I would die young. I used this to explain my inexhaustible need to do everything I’ve ever wanted as soon as possible, but now that I’m 26 and still here I think it must be because I just can’t imagine myself old.

But enough of the psycho-analyzing.

This blog is, more or a less, a series of existence musings, travel stories and advice, and articles about war, imperialism, and the possibility of a better future. Essentially it’s everything I’m interested in, along with some extensive tangential rantings about this or that and a lot of photographs and art and pretty things because I like pretty things and why shouldn’t I.

If you take nothing else, I hope you’ll go back to your daily life feeling a bit lighter and a bit more motivated to see the world, connect with local communities, and support our common humanity across borders.