You’re probably not curious, but I’ll tell you something anyway. As it stands right now, my third favorite album of all time is this. My second favorite is this. And my favorite album of all time? Well it begins with these lines…. Early one morning, the sun was shining I was laying in bed Wondering […]
I believe kids these days would put it like this: this article is giving me life rn. It certainly jarred some life in and out of me. Wow. Just wow. I read it without knowing who the author was (I’ll get to that) and was immediately taken with the essay’s words. It, as the title […]
At the end of August 2011, I flew from South Korea back to the United States. I had spent a full year living near Seoul and a full year not being in the United States. It was, and still is, the longest sustained travel/living abroad experience of my life. And at the end of August […]
I’ve been in Laos for nine days now, and I leave tonight. Despite daily downpours (it’s rainy season), it’s been a really fantastic trip here. There are a few reasons for this, so I’ll go through some of those. (1) Laos is very, very chill. In some travel blogs for Vang Vieng (the first city […]
Greetings friends, family, and whoever else has navigated this way. Hello from Ella, Sri Lanka. A sleepy little backpacker town in the hills of Sri Lanka; around some of the world’s most famous tea fields. I’ve been in Sri Lanka now for about two weeks now; starting in Colombo, and venturing through the middle of […]
Greetings from Indonesia. It’s been 10 days since I left the U.S and it’s already felt like a whirlwind—returning to Asia, bouncing around places familiar and un-. I wanted to post some thoughts on leaving Chicago before I did actually leave, but I didn’t get a chance to. So I’ll post what I had written […]
Hello from Stellenbosch, South Africa — wine capital of this part of the world, and all-around beautiful little slice of land. South Africa has been a dream for the first 9 days and I expect it to continue to be so. Cape Town was hilly, unique, cloudy, sunny, wet, wonderful, empty, full, etc; everything and […]
I’m a few days late to wrapping up 2017, but I think that will hardly matter in the grand scheme. This is my 5th year recapping, so happy to continue a good tradition. And, well, years usually seem to shift more on my birthday (January 9) then the Gregorian calendar (January 1st), but that’s not […]
open your mouth to the stand of trees automatic vultures tend to sneeze. sonic or sickness, hums a creature first where it matters, it matters most. a nun escapes the passenger seat her luck in a trunk at the covenant a hero she gave up on for lent bedsheets in sapphire, the room for rent […]
What goes up Must stay in sky. Dum v. v. What ain’t ancient Ain’t coming back. Dum v. v. I howl Dum v. v. From the back of my throat Which is filled with malbec Matched moonlight And you say you can’t hear. Dumb to see. Let us be. What spills from the block of […]
