Sunshine is Contagious

Sunshine is contagious. It starts in the sky, lights up the whole world, drifts lightly to the broken souls on earth…

Pandesal

Pandesal: a light crusty bread that melts in your mouth if it is fresh but becomes harder than a rock if it cools down.

Cuba

Cuba

I have four walls, a bed, and a little lamp that shocks me when I try to flip the switch. The walls are concrete…

Being an Outsider

The guest house building was surrounded by an eight foot concrete wall topped with barbed wire and broken glass. To get in or…

Longgang District, Shenzhen, Mainland China

We drove a black BMW down crowded highways in the outskirts of Shenzhen from Phingshan to Lungon. We took an exit off the highway and turned into the sun. The Roadsigns and street posts were littered with cameras but didn’t stop little electric…

Moncton

Moncton New Brunswick, right at the edge of the ocean. Quaint and full of snow and small pointy topped houses. There is as much French as English. People gather in hoards in darkly lit holes in the wall join in laughter and music and hide from the overcast sky.

How We Deal With Weakness

His long blond hair made a flaring frame for his sharp chin and glued on frown. His eyes sank back in his head…