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  • Why San Miguel El Alto?

    Why San Miguel El Alto?

    Mexico is an extra country. It reverberates with an intensity that leaves me exasperated and delighted in turn. I walked around with blinders on for the first six months. It’s such an overwhelming experience that if I stopped to try to take everything in, I would barely be able to see where I was going.… Read more

  • Why a Happy Halloween?

    Here’s something I haven’t written about in a while but still do all the time: programming. I decided to take a simple in-class exercise to build a memory game with React and turn it into an actual app I could add to my portfolio that doesn’t look, well, let’s just say it wasn’t a front-end… Read more

  • Why am I glad I left the United States?

    Why am I glad I left the United States?

      “Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.” -William S Burroughs, great American writer who used his status to have sex with much younger men but that’s not what we’re here to talk about right now, ok? One of the many good things about living outside of… Read more

  • Why Costa Rica?

    Why Costa Rica?

    I have never prepared less for an international trip than this one. I’ve done more research to go out of state than I did for Costa Rica. The idea I had in my mind was that Costa Rica is a country whose economy is built on tourism so it must be an insular experience built… Read more

  • Why injury onset depression? (part two)

    Why injury onset depression? (part two)

    I was told I might have extensive nerve damage but I recovered fine. [Don’t know what I’m talking about? Check out part one] My surgeon was every ambitious bro I had ever met in college. Blond and drunk on self-confidence, in his office he surrounded himself with all the prestigious awards he had won to… Read more

  • Why injury onset depression? (part one)

    Why injury onset depression? (part one)

    It’s interesting to me how important labels are. It seems obvious, but being able to frame something in words is critical to being able to identify it. This process has always been slow for me. Ironically it has taken me a long time to accept that it takes me a long time to recognize my… Read more