29 de abr. de 20211 minfirst impressions matterWe first chatted on Facebook. We were perhaps ‘friends’ who didn’t actually know each other. I may have seen him on Grindr or a sex app,...
29 de abr. de 20211 minsecond half-life mantraI’m writing a book on my mid-life crisis it would seem. A mantra for the second half-life has begun to emerge this catharsis: Talk to who...
29 de abr. de 20212 mina phalanx of neutral charactersA friend and colleague once asked me a few times, why I care so much? I was recently home to Tennessee and I was reminded of the...
29 de abr. de 20211 minwhat i didn’t learn at swarthmoreI didn’t learn anything at swarthmore. I did not take a class on logic there whereby I gained an ivy league sense of rationale. I do not...
29 de abr. de 20211 minbetrayalYou came in the form of a year. 2017 to be precise. You were not one or the other of its happenstances. You were the sum of its parts....
29 de abr. de 20211 minan ode to emailOh email. You are not you. You are not Gertrude or Renato, Daniel or Danielle. You are not George or Sidd, Rapha or Paula. You are not...
29 de abr. de 20211 minpolymathematicalI did not speak bad about you. I spoke about you. My personality is not so much multiple, but simply different with each passing day. We...
29 de abr. de 20211 minquestioning our affiliationI started looking at white, gay, alpha, cis-gendered males in a whole new light, basically questioning our affiliation.
29 de abr. de 20215 mincost of familyEconomizing relations, proximity and in some ways healthcare. Walking to the Copan to have a tedious phonecall with my mother. It...
29 de abr. de 20212 mináguas de marçoI have been waiting months to access the funds in my Banco Brasil account. It’s a small amount. After three months without transactions...
29 de abr. de 20215 minactionable advice from the inlawsThe end of last year was not as I had planned. I think living across two different cultures and cities has taught me not to sweat the...
28 de abr. de 20213 mintectonic shiftI read about ten books at a time. But sometimes a book can take over a year to read in that configuration. The state of not wanting to...
28 de abr. de 20214 minfood serviceI remember telling one of my political science professors that I was interested in food service. In creating the space for political...
20 de abr. de 20214 minDark nap of the soul I just woke up from the worst dream ever. I didn’t sleep well last night and began watching news footage about the Boulder mass shooting...