Competing Contexts
Context can be everything, yet a strong context in a given situation is hard to achieve, and requires more than just research and discussion.
Riding Ducks and Chicken Internet
Reflections on Kolkata, a walk around the neighborhood, enthusiastic construction workers, Easter Island and my first encounter with the Chicken Internet.
Lewd Conduct and the Law in Kolkata
A night on the town in Kolkata turns into a lesson about dealing with bureaucracy and bribery in a country of paperwork.
Hang Me Up to Dry
The realities of my laundry situation don’t quite meet up with my ambitions while on the road.
Accept Your Exceptions
Being the exception is limiting in some ways, but liberating in others.
Mind Adapters, Not Mind Converters
It may seem like understanding another culture requires a radical change of personality, but all it really requires is the right state of mind.
Passport-Sized Time Machines
Rumination on the stories that passport photos can tell about where you were and what you were doing at a certain point and time in your life.
Cursed and Accomplished in Kolkata
The tale of my trials and tribulations I experienced my first two weeks in Kolkata, India, and what they mean for the rest of the 4 months I’ll be living here.
Revenge Paninis
In which I’m stopped, rerouted, denied sleep, forced to chase my bag around an airport and offered a panini in exchange for my silence.
Time Traveling Catholics and Confederate Ideals
Your actions and ideas will echo through generations of revisions; be sure you give them the care and attention they deserve.