The Hypnosis of Writing

I had no conception that I would form this fondness for writing. Boredom was extinct in the moments of forming poetic expressions. Creation was booming from the most intimate corners of my mind. Corners that only a typewriter had access to. I built trust with the plasticity of my keyboard. It knew the shapes of…

Nosara, Personified

Your wilted greens and grasses awaiting the wet season greeted my arrival despite their thirst.  The dirt drying and the heat breaking way on the ground created a fragrance of nature’s natural course.  With windows open, I adventured on your rugged roads to at last reach your highest slope.  At every car swooping curve a…

Berlin, I miss you.

Berlin, I miss you. The way your skies whipped up dark grey tones emitting mysteries within the air in my innocent lungs.  The heavy feeling in my chest when I thought of your past and the ghosts of unsettled souls down certain streets.  I liked your brokenness, your divisions, it meant you’ve suffered a history. …

The Act of Traveling Without Physically Traveling

  Physical travel is a costly interest to maintain.  What a bothersome realization to come to terms with because I love the act of “going.”  Every airport feels like a new home that has called for my visit for too long of a time.  There are nights though, were my heart aches and feelings of emptiness…

A Self-Involved Essay on Money, Fear, and Happiness

*Re-Posted from MatadorNetwork.com FOR REASONS TOO STUPID to relate in a public forum, one morning my travel companion, Michael, and I were lazing around our hotel room in Hoi An discussing the inevitable zombie apocalypse. My position on the matter was that there’d be a certain point at which it’d be better to be dead…

Wanderlust: For The Wildest of Hearts

  The desire of the unknown is one of the most beautiful and strongest innervation I’ve encountered.  Your imagination runs wild with cultures,  cuisines, tastes of life in corners unexplored.  You crave learning every facet of humanity.  Wanderlust is not a desire of lounging in utopian beaches or a sunny Atlantis.  Everyone places that on their wish-list and should…