I am in the process of upgrading to a new ‘grid’ on my web host. The site may not work properly or simply cease to function at all. Bear with me during this transition.

Stockholm is an amazing place. Known as the Venice of the North, the elegant city embraces fourteen islands, an archipelagic skein strewn where the fresh waters of Lake Mälaren meet the salty waters of the Baltic Sea. On the weekend, the city was alive, vivified by an intense and oblique sun and sense of urgency…

Stevie Nicks reminds me of seventeen, of gratuitously prurient poetry and salacious protruding pelvises that slope downward into jeans and the secrecy they afford. She reminds me of spring, parenthetical season of cool breezes and burning sun kisses. In particular, lazy days spent upon the Santa Fe Prep bleachers, cold metallic structure of dilapidated blue.…

Los recuerdos empiezan a desvanecer con el tiempo y yo, yo me voy a marchar. Me gustaría existir atrapado eternamente en el oasis que es aquel instante donde vamos por la autopista rumbo a aquella ciudad a distancia. Era un verano brillante y árido y mientras yo frenéticamente buscaba un disco, sentía las rizas sobre…

Mañana tendré el placer de visitar tres ciudades en tres distintos países. En la mañana tomaré un autobus a Dublín, República de Irlanda; el translado entre el Reino Unido e Irlanda siempre ocurre sin gran celebración — no hay marcador alguno que distinga a un país del otro. De ahí tomaré un vuelo hacia Praga,…

The Bush administration took the United States to war on false pretenses. Not only had Saddam W.M.D., but he was also aiding Al-Qaeda. Of course there were no W.M.D., after all, America was the one that had armed Iraq when it was fighting Iran; it would have only required an inspection of the arm sales’…

“Votre curé, continua Brichot, en voyant qu’il m’intéressait, fait venir les mots en hon, home, holm, du mot holl (hullus), colline, alors qu’il vient du norois holm, île, que vous connaissez bien dans Stockholm, et qui dans tout ce pays-ci est si répandu, la Houlme.” — Proust, Sodome et Gomorrhe—Volume 2. Es así que aprendo…

I have tried to discover the motivation for my opposition to the burqa — an Islamic accoutrement par excellence. Is it based on just reasons or on my Christian bias. I am an atheist, however, I am culturally Christian. I was raised under a docile and nominal Catholicism — the sort that Constantine the Great…

I have tried to discover the motivation for my opposition to the burqa — an Islamic accoutrement par excellence. Is it based on just reasons or on my Christian bias. I am an atheist, however, I am culturally Christian. I was raised under a docile and nominal Catholicism — the sort that Constantine the Great…

Prague is a medieval city crowned by the halo of communism—faded tricolored tenements circumscribe the historic quarters. Without, thick forests and lush rolling fields of green. Atop a hill lies the architectural patina that is Prague Castle, overlooking the Vltava-lascerated Bohemian city. At its heart is St. Vitus Cathedral, a juggernaut of flying buttresses—I still…