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It's always "don't wear pyjamas to the airport." It's never "dress for the flight you're on."
Forget the airport fashion rules. Here is how to dress for the flight you are actually on, from aircraft type to seat class to shoes that survive a sprint through the terminal.
I am a believer in looking your best and feeling your best being so exclusive, they have a couples name. In my traveler's opinion, the airport is a transit zone, a waiting room, a departure point for a thousand different lives moving in a thousand different directions.
mendingmilesco
Jun 303 min read


Stepping Into the World of the Gospodinã - A Moldovan Kitchen Witnessing (Moldovan cooking class)
An ode to the women who hold a culture together with their hands. What I learned in a Moldovan kitchen with Elena, Veronica, Mihaela, and a glass of Domno Mihai's Jin de Casa. A reflection on the gospodinã, the making of placinte, and the kind of womanhood that gets to be more nuanced than the versions we are most often handed. From Lu Johnson, founder of Mending Miles Co.
mendingmilesco
Jun 14 min read


Virée au Cap Estérias: Food, Memory, and the Soft Places That Shape Us
My uprooting was not casual. It was the bold, trembling decision to stop delaying the things I secretly dreamed of but was almost too shy to pray for. Less than six months before clearing out my apartment and deciding what still belonged in my life as a domestic violence surviving widow, I told my father the plan. I had just returned from Gabon for my grandmother’s burial, and something shifted.
I told him that in fourteen months, I would quit my job and uproot my life back
mendingmilesco
Nov 24, 20255 min read
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