Do the work
You don’t have to travel to widen your knowledge of human experience. You can read. It’s cheap (and even free if you have a library card). Fellow white…
Category: Everything else
Hills
If you had told me 15 years ago, as I stood on the side of an English hill inside a particularly uncomfortable cloud of driving rain with a…
‘very knowledgable, but never a snob’
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted, but Getting Where owes a lot to Anthony Bourdain. Five years ago, I went to eat at The Kitchin in…
Another day, another lava bomb
This is (part of) one of my favourite pictures from this year. It says more to me about that trip than most of the other ten billion pictures…
Vote for respect
This has been a good year, but an incredibly difficult one. (That’s how good things work, right?) I have been less active about writing here than I’d like,…
Literature on repeat
News of the recent passing of Bennett Lamond, one of my favourite and best English Lit professors, in combination with a particularly inspiring weekend full of theatre, spoken…
On balance
When I was maybe about 6 or 7, I was pretty into gymnastics. I did some kind of classes at the YMCA, and whenever tumbling and mats and…
Yes, I am angry
As an American living abroad, I have been trying for a long, long time to figure out how I continue to help and even relate to a place…
Flawless Plans
Just a short one today, because I feel compelled to point out my friend’s fantastic blog, Flawless Plans, that everyone should be reading. For someone who writes a…
A love letter to Lindy Hop
It’s Frankie Manning’s birthday today, and also World Lindy Hop Day. And since dancing has done so much for me in such a relatively short period of time,…