Hey, my name is Emily.

I’m a 30 year-old Data Engineer, and I’ll currently live in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. I spent the pandemic years as a digital nomad country hopping, but LA is where I call home. I approach life a bit spontaneously, definitely recklessly, and with a lot of impatience (though I’m actively working on this…). So despite my age, I’ve gotten more than my fair share of bruises, sometimes broken bones, and I have been through a lot of… transformative…chaos.

I’ve been sitting on my URL for years, maybe in preparation for making this website. My intention for this space is to honestly use it as a personal soundboard. I’ve always been a writer, though not in the traditional sense. So this website/blog/vlog/etc will be where I practice sharing in an unfiltered sense, free of major edits.

This is not a website where I talk about my travels and tips. I’ve genuinely never used any of those sites with any measurable gains, and I feel like that space has more than enough voices. In all honesty, this is probably going to start of as a space where I communicate my fury. I’ve learned a lot of things while living abroad, most importantly, that I still know very little of the world. However, despite language and cultural differences, people are the same, and there is beautiful connection we all share, should we take the time to seek it out. It’s really lovely learning how to be a global citizen, bumps, bruises, and failures in all.

Word of Caution: If you are grammatical-inclined, my writing will cause you to fall into deep despair. I write the way I speak, which is almost exclusively grammatically incorrect. Learning colloquial Brazilian Portuguese will probably not help that end.