What is more human?

Thinking or Feeling

Last Saturday I did something very ordinary for a very long time. Something that 7 million years ago was not so ordinary and began distinguishing humans from animals, and thus thought from feeling. Something that made me tired as fuck.

On Autonomy

and the 8-month journey to reach this damn stage

Have you ever moved to a new country for an extended period of time? If so, you’ve likely seen this graph. It’s the 5 Stages of Culture Shock framework that many expats experience when moving to a new…

Homelessness — US vs. Europe

I had an experience with a homeless person this week in Berlin that has largely confused me.

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In the freezing cold and around 6pm (already dark), I shuffled past a new part of town to run some errands. I noticed a man…

Welcome

Welcome to my blog, called Sonders. Sonder is my favorite word, and if you haven’t heard it before, this is what it means:

Take That Spanish Class in School, Kids!

7 Lessons Spanish Taught Me in Europe

For 8 years in school, I dreaded Spanish class. Everyday you’d walk in and memorize genders for inanimate objects, calculate 2 forms of the same concept of “you,” and…

Time (and Greece)

You know that feeling when you sit on a couch, and it’s a lot cushier than you expected, so you end up sinking down way further than you thought you would?

That’s how I feel about time while traveling through Europe. And I’ve been wondering how to possibly fathom the…

German Verbs

The Saying goes, “To a Man with a Hammer, everything looks like a Nail”. (Thanks Mark Twain.) And as I’ve been learning German, I’ve been realizing that maybe English is my Hammer, and I’ve been thinking with this Tool in a very specific Way.