“If there’s turbulence, I will have a panic attack in the air,” Darko told me with a trembling stare. “I asked them and they told me that I can get a refund. I will take the bus.” I set down the proof of my book I was copy editing and put my hand on Darko’s…
I feel I should offer some context here before posting this to the world… There was a lot of whiskey consumed before Tony, Tyler and I decided to make up a song about Medusa. We were camping in Missouri (or as it’s called instate Mah-zura). One of the favorite pastimes of my brother Tyler and…
You’re far away from home. Your in, we’ll say, the jungle. Lost in the jungle and forging for food. (Don’t eat the green beetles!) It’s about now that you wish you had a lot of things you probably didn’t pack on a trip. Things that are so versatile, they can help you deal with wardrobe…
I think we’re going about arriving at the Harvest Music Festival on Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Arkansas in an ideal way. Originally we had planned to spread the 24-hour drive across three days, stopping off in cities where friend’s company and open ended offers to crash on their couches greeted us. A few days before…
If I were the queen of the nest of hornets that lives in my parents’ roof, I would have sent the wasps all at once. I think they would have had better odds, whatever their plan. As it was, the wasps came today one at a kamikaze time, flying into the open window to a…
So, one November in 2011 I thought some friends and I could turn a regular Friday night in Antigua, Guatemala, which given, are awesome and never feel regular, more awesome by having a Mariachi band follow us around town. That night was incredible, even the point where the Mariachi band was hunting me down and…
Today was the day my return ticket was book back to the USA. But instead of being on a plane, I`m in a cafe off Antigua`s Central Park, a red wine in front of me and another week of Antigua on the calendar. Antigua grabs ahold of you like a sea creature. I should have…
Tomorrow I fly back to Guatemala to get the details squared away with micro-testing a project I’m calling, “The Third World Savings Project.” I’m working with The Integral Heart Foundation to flesh out the details of implementation and since they have the boots on the ground, they are going to see the project through. When…
Today I learned how to make the color brown, and then I sneezed all over my brother’s acrylic paints. Accidentally, of course, as these things happen. I was day dreaming, about the color brown and the sneeze crept like a cheetah that pounced all over his tubes of paints. The worst thing about sneezing on…
