What makes even the devil? What tastes like a lonely death? What is the animal that is eaten almost a year after its funeral? I know how, in this subjective world of political correctness, most of you feel about the word “most.” You can’t just drop a “most” lightly. And I am not. I have…
It is difficult to believe that I first met Maria and Carmen four years ago. It was my second year as director of a development project in Guatemala and though I had seen a lot, I had not been prepared for the realities a visit to a garbage dump near the foot of the volcano…
Not knowing what a “hipster” is so 2011 Just to be clear, by hip I mean “hipster” and by “hipster” I mean that positively and do not mean to get into existential debate about what that word means. Not knowing what “hipster” means is so 2011. Hipster means you are in your 20s or 30s,…
Share your words, songs, secrets, or paintings—there is no need to be ashamed of what you create with your heart. Do you have a book growing inside of you? Perhaps you should see a doctor? Or maybe you are one of the 4 out of 5 Americans who believe they have a book to write.…
The people in Iceland are as beautiful as the vistas. So that friend of yours in college who always wore the corduroys introduced you to some Sigur Rós and you dig? Of Monsters and Men is music that both you and your seventeen-year-old sister can agree upon and you totally thought they were from England…
“I will kill and eat a puffin” I said, joking, until I realized, maybe, I was seriously contemplating it . . I was traveling with three Canadians (which means I was being apologized to quite frequently despite never being wronged) and they informed me that in Iceland people routinely catch and eat puffins. I’m sorry…
Distance used to separate us entirely. Historically, a tract of three thousand miles was once a wall that only the thoughts of our minds could cross. Our bodies, it’s true, are still restricted by our geography, but our hearts, minds and melodies have been set free enough to sing in harmony. Last night Steffe, Shaun…
It’s the biggest sausage fest on the planet. There is no penury of penis in The Icelandic Phallogogical Musuem. It’s the biggest sausage fest on the planet, the only museum of its kind in the world and there are more penises than you ever planned/hoped/wanted to see. The blog post, like the dick jokes, write…
Last night at a bar in Halifax, I proposed a question: Do you think that Americans would be more outraged and more united in their resolve to demand of their government to govern if instead of the closing of the federal government being shut down the NFL was suspended? Please weigh in: Later today, I…
Growing up, my mother repeated a stirring lesson that remains wildly relevant in life today: sometimes, you have to accept realities that you don’t like. Be it having to make my bed or being barred from bringing a 6-foot long bull snake into the house, I’ve learned that sometimes in the Texas Holdem game of…
