The German word wan·der·lust is defined as a "strong, innate desire to rove or travel about".

When most kids were going to summer camp, we were packing our bags and heading to Germany to visit my grand-parents. The packing, the anticipation and the 13-hour flight on Lufthansa just became a part of my youth. And once we landed, this became home. Fischstaebchen + Frosties, das Sandmaenchen + die Mainzelmaenchen, riding the train or a bicycle and never using the car - this was all normal. And some summers, when we returned back to school in the United States, we'd have to learn English all over again.

One of these summers, at age seven, I joined family friends on a trip to Venice, Italy, leaving my family behind. Because my sense of home was and is so clear, I was able to embark on that adventure and many more thereafter with a sense of adventure and the knowing that home was right where I had left it.

And so, began my innate desire to travel about.

I have traveled alone and in groups, to cities and the countryside, done volunteer work and wasted time just staring at the horizon. At times traveling for me has been an escape, a running away from something, in the hopes of finding what I was running towards.

But now, something is different. I am different. My sense of home is even more profound - for I have learned that home is in fact wherever I am and that no place or people or experience will bring the consistent inner fulfillment I was searching for. From that place, I can see and hear and taste and feel from a whole new perspective.

How I see the world gets reflected in the pictures I take and the small details that catch my eye. Most often I am drawn to children - how they play and how they experience joy. People too, doing their everyday things, catch my eye. And at other times, it the color of a flower, the design of a space or some other detail that I capture.

Design + inspiration are all around us. From architecture to children's faces, this is a place to share the world through my eyes.

Welcome.

{Please stay tuned....photos by country coming soon!}