Author: Namrata D Prabhakar

So, i recently asked my friend, name one thing that holds you back from travelling and what he replied is what i hear from everyone i talk to: “Ash, I don’t have enough money.”

Money.

I personally think, you do not need to be rich to travel.

Lets repeat that.

You do not need to be Rich to travel cheap.

You need to make travel a priority, if travel is not your priority you will always find other things to spend your money on. People save money, they have agenda behind saving, atleast some do.

The question is, what is your reason behind saving? why do you need savings when you have money that you are just keeping for future. Make this concept clear and you will realize what you are saving for, if it’s for travel. Congratulations, my friend, you are a soulful traveller, who despite of everthing …

by Ali McKay

If you have young kids or use Redfin, you’ve probably seen the school ratings from GreatSchools. Our school is rated a “4”. That’s out of 10. When I was in school, forty percent is not a grade that I or my parents would have been happy with. In fact, there would have been a fair amount of freaking out about a 4 out of 10. And yet, my children, and all of the other 330 kids in that school, are learning, having fun, and occasionally misbehaving or letting off steam. They are being kids. The more I think about it, the more I wonder how a building full of people – actual kids, teachers, parents, staff – can be described by one number.

I am very happy with our school, even though it has some pretty significant challenges. It isn’t a “4” to me, or…

My parents tell me I had the most beautiful eyes. When I was three though, something started going wrong with them. Doctors said it was glaucoma and I underwent an operation in my right eye. Soon after, my parents noticed that my right eye had some discharge coming out of it. When they contacted the doctor, he said it was normal but within a few days, my right eye completely disappeared and they rushed me back to the hospital. But I had already lost my right eye. The doctor immediately performed surgery to stop the infection from spreading. If he hadn’t been negligent, maybe we could have saved my right eye. By the time I turned 5, I had undergone six operations. With 20% vision left in my left eye, I was told to be very careful to make sure I did not lose it.

As a child, I went…