I was never supposed to live in China because Oaxaca was on the docket and a signed & sealed agreement (but not yet delivered) back in 2007. The study abroad program I was to attend was ultimately canceled due to protest (ahem, military police) violence against striking teachers that had…
Category: Travel
A Conversation with Taiwanese Human Rights Activists Paul & Mary Lin and Hsing-Chung Wang of New School For Democracy
2011 Archive- Posted to celebrate recent Taiwanese elections! On a Saturday evening in Taipei I struck up a conversation with a Taiwanese couple sitting across from me on the long metro ride from the Danshui station. After some small talk in Chinese and introducing myself as an NGO worker in…
Diving in Cenotes and Spending C-Notes, A Trip to Tulum, Mexico
On a dive in Cuba back in the good ol’ Obama years I fell in with a group of Portuguese divers. These were good times for the forgotten Caribbean Islands as locals were elated with talks of potential peace, a baseball game between Miami and Havana and speaking, “tu presidente…
Morocco- most unchill vaca
poem circa 2013 Tangier tight grip on billfoldas hashish hawkers and purveyorsof information inform the bewilderedin the cartographic void. Attempts to escape were thwarted by eager drivers eyeingsluggish mochilleros riding surfer vibes from Tarifaand suspect to strange tariffs. The azure oasis of chefchaouen broughta sense of tranquility and a remedyto…
Bob the Pedo English Teacher of Chengdu
Here’s an excerpt from my novel Laowhy? On the topic of filth and debauchery, we come to a more unfortunate category of English teachers that plague the continent of Asia. Here we have the 35-60 something balding White men who settle down in a new Asian country after pissing off…