As America and the world remembers the events of 11 September, 2001, it  goes without saying that the anniversary will bring a wave of memorials and reawakened emotions. All across our face-space society a chorus of videos, pictures and status updates are sure to arise. No, none of us will ever forget where we were [...]

I stumbled across this picture while searching through the archives of A Continuous Lean, one of my top-read blogs at the moment. What it captures is something I long to confront in my own writing. America. Innocence. Dreams. To hold onto or let go. Confronting their presence, prevalent once, with my conflicted pursuit to recapture [...]

We woke early for our first experience playing clay court tennis. We arrived early to watch the pair ahead of us and gain a sense of how to move on the soft red dirt. When their time expired the groundskeeper came to neatly repaint the worn out lines of white chalk. He used a spreader, [...]

It was an emotional day. I was unprepared. Yet I knew why we made the trip. It was to be a family reunion. But I didn’t understand. Just about 9 am we set out for Esztergom on our first day outside of Budapest. It is one of the oldest towns in the country and once [...]

Day two has been another full day. The difference is we are on our own this time. As to be expected, our steps are slightly more chaotic, if not hurried, scampering from destination to destination trying to cram as much as possible into one single day. And although I relish the chance to get lost [...]

Starting from the beginning, my journals during my brief tour of Budapest and its surroundings Since arriving in Budapest we’ve been on quite the whirlwind schedule. Barely able to process my thoughts, let alone find the time to put them into words, my journal pages have remained empty for the first 3 days. Well, okay, [...]

I am a lucky guy. This is perhaps the most certain unrelenting fact of my still short life. Indeed, it has been made paramount to me the unparalleled opportunities I’ve been given to travel the globe to witness and experience a point of view foreign from my own. My parents always told me, usually in [...]

Live Let Loose Amusing myself seems to be the best excuse The future is here so live let loose Walk today as if the master No fear of failure or disaster I say live let loose or Let it fester Remember to forget Everything you know Listen for clues and voices Will show you how [...]

Some of my fondest memories of my grandfather are made up of the Sunday afternoons he would take me and my brother into DC for a visit to Eastern Market. Located on 7th St. SE, it’s just a few blocks east of the U.S. Capitol and just a block from the Eastern Market metro stop [...]

The greatest newsworthy event of 2009 is playing out before us through the usual stimuli of pictures, videos, and words. That it is coming through the lens of Twitter, cell phones and amateur filmmakers is nothing new in this day and age, but that it is coming from a country controlled by an Islamic fundamentalist [...]