Protesters in Eastern Ukraine are digging in for the long haul, or so says a recent report by PRI News. This report on a very worrisome topic was illustrated with an image of a man riding a pony through the deserted streets of Donetsk. You can see it here. For some reason, I thought it […]
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Remodeling
Re-vamping my website on my own webspace. Pardon the mess. More to come. Here is a doodle of an expat reporter in Cambodia, with no resemblance towards the living or the dead intended:
How We Write About Dead Smart Young People
My mother regularly threatens me with writing a really terrible obituary if I die before my time. “It’ll be full of puppies and rainbows,” she says. “It’ll go on about how sweet and kind and inspirational you were. A little angel sent down from a sunbeam to live among us.” She knows this would wound […]
Things I Ate in New Orleans
When I began writing, it was a food blogger. I was 15 and was noticing the explosion of popular food blogs online: most importantly, I just really liked eating stuff. I started a food blog when I was sixteen and then threw myself more thoroughly into it once I got to school at Tulane, where […]
New Orleans – Musically Inclined
What I miss most about New Orleans is definitely the music. Most cities in the world view music as a semi-interesting sidebar to the more important stuff. Venues are rare and expensive, outdoors festivals feature beer gardens and security scrutiny, and the occasional major band blows through like traders in the desert, selling $300 coliseum […]
New Orleans – Photos From Around
I haven’t been back to New Orleans in two years. It’s a damn sin, and I’m glad I could correct it this March. The weather was cold and overcast, but not too much had changed. Here’s some photos from around town — a few more blog posts to come, most likely. I’m thinking about millennial […]
Menstrual Huts Aren’t So Bad, or Why Cultural Relativism Drives Me Crazy
What Life is Like When Getting Your Period Means You Are Shunned – Jezebel A woman travels to Nepal to investigate the custom of chaupadi, wherein menstruating women are made to sleep in small, often-snake-infested huts. Even worse, women are at risk of being raped when they sleep in these isolated locations, and the stigma […]
Why Paintball is Awesome
Last weekend, I shot little balls full of multi-colored goo at people I don’t personally know. There was lots of screaming, and shouting, and ducking behind obstacles and convenient hiding places. In other words, I was playing paintball, a practice more commonly associated with twelve year old boys and emotionally frustrated rednecks than with young […]
Not in New Orleans, But Listening to This
I would like to inform you that if you are in New Orleans right now, I think you suck. Anyway, here’s a blog post that is just my playlist tonight — which would be an utterly pedestrian and slightly drippy night in Palo Alto. One re-evaluates one’s life choices. Can’t get away without this one. […]
I Drive to Half Moon Bay A Lot
I drive to Half Moon Bay a lot, and I take pictures of landscapes. My one complaint is that it’s still too damned cold this time of year. Otherwise? Perfect. I don’t know these people, but they’re cute. Weathered rocks, which are always appealing to me. Wistful. Paddle boarders and using vignetting to compensate for […]