Last weekend, what started out as planned protests against the removal of a confederate memorial and opposing counter-protest devolved into expressions of violence and hate, as crowds wielding torches, sporting swastika armbands, and carrying confederate and even Nazi flags marched through Charlottesville, VA. Images and footage from the days has been sweeping the nation, and … Continue reading A Note on Charlottesville
In true disheveled-journalist fashion, rediscovering a brief blurb I wrote while traveling last year. I was going over some notebooks from last year to revise an article I've been putting off when, in the margins and on scattered pages, I found a small passage I wrote while traveling through Tunisia last January. It's not much, … Continue reading Anecdote from Tunisia
Back from an unintentional hiatus of hibernation, here is a brief bit of writing I on a bus. I was traveling between London and Lincoln: a twee little town in the East Midlands region of England, part of this year's odyssey of [trying to] changing my university for next year. More on that, soon. Rutland … Continue reading Moment #2
So I'm sitting on a stiff couch in the hotel lounge up on the 12th floor. I'm drinking some espresso drink from the automatic machine to keep from passing out before it can brush my teeth; my feet are sore, it's been a long day. All of a sudden I look out the window … Continue reading Moment #1
