The Type of Artist You Can’t Afford to Be

Ever walked out of a glass art gallery wondering which crazy-face made up price tags in the thousands?

Hermitage Cure: A New Mexican Month

Imagine skipping weekends in your life for a year.

I did.

Okay, it was eleven months. Still, I can’t recommend it.

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M.I.A. – Depression for the Un-Depressed

A psychology professor was giving an oral test. Speaking about manic depression, she asked, “How would you explain a man screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sitting in a chair weeping uncontrollably the next?” An athlete in the third row offered, “Umm, maybe he’s a basketball coach?”

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‘Merica & Moving to a Truck

I looked up from the dining room table to see Boyfriend shouldering a rifle in my parent’s kitchen.

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Why All Swedes Sound Like Gangsters

“Good going,” I thought, right after careening into a seven foot tower of a man.

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Bullfighting Outlawed in Spain – Really!

A young Catalonian couple found out they were expecting twins just a few weeks after purchasing a plot of land to build their first home.

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Where Mayonnaise Comes From

Our ferry arrived in Minorca several hours later than expected.

It was an everything-is-closed Sunday. In an isolated Spanish port-town. During siesta. Shop-fronts were locked up tight. Wifi eluded us. No, we hadn’t written down the contact number for the people delivering our rental car. In the sun-baked silence, not even crickets chirped. We battled post-apocalyptic conditions to discover our car-delivering individuals had given up on us.