A celebration of science and spirit. I’ve started a little tradition for myself. I never leave La Sagrada Familia Cathedral without...

And why you feel like an a-hole for complaining about it now. Churches in Europe are on a whole other level, man. And yet I’m somehow...

A travel writing exercise and fan cross-over Woman in the Garden This piece is going to be different from my usual historical pieces....

Processing 2020 in a cemetery so you don’t have to. A few weeks after the presidential election was called back in my home country, the...

The history behind America’s billion-dollar wage theft problem and how to fight it. Hardly any of the bus drivers at the tour companies I...

The story of an Americana darling and his living shadow. I’m mad at Mark Twain right now. If you follow along with my writing (and you...

What’s more interesting than the history a public statue represents? How that statue got there in the first place. It occurs to me that I...

Legacy can be slippery... I had an existential crisis in Porto, Portugal and, I don’t want to blame specific people, but J.K. Rowling,...

Ok, I know I’ve lost your trust with several of my previous listicles. You thought you were gonna get real tips on how to be a freelance...

An apology letter to my boobs. To my Darling Double-Ds, Started from the bottom, now we here. This letter is a long time coming, I know....

Am American griping in Europe. People ask me all the time what the cultural differences are between the U.S. and Spain and when I say...

Breakfast can change your life. I'm cereal. My parents never let me and my siblings eat anything colorful for breakfast because our...

Finding a writing community on the other side of the world. In San Francisco, I had a routine. Every Sunday morning at 11, I’d meet my...

This. Changes. Everything. Mitri the Scribe was once the highest-paid servant of Pharaoh Unas in the 24th century BC. He was the guy you...

The Satirical Genius and Revolutionary Feminism of Lola Montez. “I expect to win the gratitude of the whole masculine gender by these...

I’ll hold off on the clichés if you can put up with a personal story. The Gothic District of Barcelona is a winding maze of cobblestone...

… you will be by the time you’re done reading this. Are you tired of living with your parents and ignoring emails from FedLoan? Have you...

What it’s like to be an American abroad in the time of Trump. If you want to see some phenomenal English stand-up in Barcelona, you need...