Decountrified

Four years away from the city of my dreams, and I find myself once again in the heart of Istanbul. My companions are a group of...

My most recent trip took me hundreds of miles from my current home in Java to the eastern isles of Flores, Komodo, and Padar, in a...

We recently had the chance to spend two weeks in Sri Lanka. Known long ago as Serendib, more recently as Ceylon, and colloquially as the pea

YOGYAKARTA - I first meet Heru with a six-foot snake wrapped around his neck. “You get used to it,” he assures me. “I was scared at first to

This week marks the beginning of my fifth month in Indonesia, right at the halfway mark of my time in the Archipelago. It’s been an incredib

One of life’s great pleasures is to encounter yourself in the pages of a book written years ago. How satisfying it is to see the thoughts yo

That’s exactly how my colleague says it, too: “You look so fat,” as she laughs, pointing to her belly area. No kidding, I look fat. People

It’s three in the morning and the jeep is kicking up dust from the desert behind us. As the driver nimbly navigates the twists and turns up

Several months ago I found out that I was accepted in a program to teach English for ten months in Indonesia. A colleague of mine had spent

On the far reaches of the Yucatan peninsula, I struggled to take the last step to reach the apex of a mighty pyramid in the jungle, high abo

After only a few months of living in the city, I had quickly become invested in the well being and integrity of the Istanbullus. I think of

It’s a cool summer Istanbul night and I find myself with the sudden urge to express all of the thoughts coalescing in my head. Nearing the e