bio
I’m Karen. I write and take pictures of things that inspire me.
My stuff has appeared here, here, here and here. At 25, I moved to New York to give journalism one last try before committing myself to a nunnery, or, you know, finding something that made money. After sufficiently flailing about, I stumbled upon a neat reporting job writing about Google things, music rights things and invention things for an intellectual property law magazine.
Here, I wrote about life and its (mis)adventures, like surviving the city’s oppressive summer without a/c, the impermanence of roommates, and how celebrity encounters rendered me a spastic mess. My photo expeditions yielded discoveries of the non-cherry blossom kind, of graffiti-covered walls and, most interestingly, of people.
Then I left it all behind.
Determined to see whether the hellions of the world really do have more fun, I became a grad student of the dark side, of advertising and copywriting at VCU Brandcenter. I’ll report my findings shortly.
E-mail me if you have a burning desire to tell me stuff you can’t tell me here. For everything else, there’s Twitter and Tumblr.

WHERE’S THE RSS FEED!?!?!!? lol
Thanks for reminding me, Ben! Should be up and running now.
I’ve been meaning to do that… Stay tuned!
Would you be open to an interview for my blog? I write about using blogging and social media for job seekers at http://CareerEnlightenment.net
Would love to share your story.
Let me know. . .
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Hi Karen,
I read through some of your posts. Traveling, writing, and photography – is a neat combination:) and I guess it sums up to make Journalism.
Warm Regards,
Shafali
Lovely pictures, I enjoyed them very much.
Remain.Simple
Aaawww i love it! You inspire me to keep up with my [secret] blog but I seem to always find “other” things to do! Keep it up! Love your blogs/posts, as always =o)
Thanks, Toni! That means a lot. Wait — You have a blog?! Um, do tell.