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Happy Easter, World
Inspired by Ottsworld‘s Good Friday post, I’ve put together a collage of my many religious encounters across the globe. Included below are churches, mosques, cemeteries, monuments, memorials and anything else that channels the bigger-than-us entities that so many worship. Whatever you choose to believe or disbelieve, there is beauty to be found here. So on […]
Bottle Openers & Parisian Spring Nights
February 7, 2012
Inspired by CreativeWritingPrompts.com, prompt #1: Of all the things I brought back from my travels through Europe last Spring, the most outwardly boring is a bottle opener. Not the bottle opener I bought from the Stuttgart tourism shop that proves in images and words where I have been. That bottle opener is distinctly a souvenir […]
Break in Pavement
August 7, 2011
A few weeks ago, amidst job hunting in the suburbs and fulfilling maid of honor duties for the best bride around, I was in need of a lot of green. Trees, open fields, crops, grass – that kind of green. You might think that I would be content with my tree-lined block and lush backyard, […]
If I were a budding country music flower
June 22, 2011
If I were a budding country music flower, I would sprout from one of Nashville’s towering Magnolia trees. I would overlook Centennial Park’s ode to the Greeks and reach for the wafts of air infused with kettle corn. When the sun became too hot and the air too thick, I would call on the rains […]
From Where I Started
May 24, 2011
“So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance.” -Aldous Huxley Where I started is Kentucky, the beautiful Bluegrass. Since 2005, I’ve ventured off to far away […]
The Real Life Boy Amélie
March 29, 2011
It’s an understatement to say that we’re all a bit inundated with viral videos, cute animal photos, and online celebrity gossip. This is not any of those. The videos below tell one of the most endearing, inspirational stories I’ve ever heard. They tell the story about one person who followed Adventure to a priceless end […]
My Steps Alone
March 24, 2011
This morning a lyric popped into my head, relentless in being heard. I don’t know why it happened when it did and I can’t recall anything in particular that inspired it, but it was this: “There is a road, no simple highway between the dawn and the dark of night.” At age 17, it had […]
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March 23, 2011
I’ve always found myself feeling old. Number of years has nothing to do with it. It’s not about what I have or haven’t accomplished. I don’t have any gray hairs or wrinkles – that I know of. Maybe it’s years of being told that I’m an “old soul”. It could have gone to my head. […]
I look like a tourist…
March 22, 2011
…because I am a tourist. An American one, at that. I wear tennis shoes because six years of New York City taught me: don’t fuck with your feet. I take pictures of old walls because I think old shit is cool. The equation goes like this: Foreign country + Foreign Street Signs + Foreigner = […]
Where the Old Never Gets Old and the New… Well, the new is pretty cool too
March 21, 2011
It’s no secret that I love historic towns, old architecture, art museums, and all the other nerdy cultural goodies that I’m surrounded by here in Germany. Some would say that I couldn’t get enough of it. Well, what if I said I could? I know, how ridiculous. There can’t possibly be such a thing as […]
April 8, 2012
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