From Berlin with Love
In 2000, when W. stole the election that made him president, I was at the beginning of my junior year abroad in London. I hadn’t expected to leave my college […]
In 2000, when W. stole the election that made him president, I was at the beginning of my junior year abroad in London. I hadn’t expected to leave my college […]
It’s Father’s Day, and not only is my Father not on social media, he calls Father’s Day “that other Hallmark propaganda holiday” and tells me he’d have forgotten it entirely […]
For the second time in a decade, I am going home for Christmas. An unexpected event in many ways but none more so than my current state of disconnection from […]
I had my first depressive episode when I was 15. Depression is a creeping disease. You carry on and carry on and carry on until one day you realize that […]
It’s a strange thing to have a loved one (”loved one” – one so dear they live in your heart at all times; one who lives in your past, your […]
On Day 6 of Vipassana, deep in meditation I saw myself training with a wooden staff, leaping and twirling through the monastery’s echoing shadows and eyes closed in lotus silent-still […]
India’s Republic Day is also Australia Day. Apparently 26th January was a bad day for the English Empire. The long weekend brings an influx of Indian tourists where they walk […]
Elizabeth Beach, Australia I wake up in a warm black cocoon of human funk, curled on my side with my nose in your armpit. Stoned with sleep, my eyes register […]
There is a singular darkness in the desert, a darkness without shadow. Even at the center of Black Rock City with the wild populous pulsing at the limits of human […]
Somewhere past Westport the road linking the towns along the western coast of the south island turns sharply into the mountains, switching back and up and back and up through […]