Language Limbo

I feel like a zombie as I stand in the security line at the Miami airport. My ears remain full of whatever it is ears get full of on airplanes, air? Mucus? Anxiety? Zombie death?
Everyone around me looks like they have also been reanimated. People groan. Pick up their bags. Set their bags down. We [...]

A Painting and a Little Luck Can Change a Life

Certain moments possess an amount of incomprehensible serendipity. For a night like this to have come when it did for me, on the very last night of my first trip into the land of “Par-EE,” is especially ironic. For, as a trip is coming to a close, people have a remarkable ability to do everything [...]