i have had my msypace location changed to istanbul for all of an hour (if even that) and it would seem that is enough time for internet perverts from istanbul to begin emailing me to a)ask me to email them privately, b)meet in istanbul somewhere, c)in turkish as if i am turkish just because i…
Category Archives: Travel
finally some real movies and saying goodbye to granada
in previous blogs i have discussed a two types of travellers phenomenon (The Questing Traveler and the Runaway Traveler) along with my discontent at the cowardice demonstrated in films these days in telling the easiest parts of stories and leaving the most interesting and complicated parts alone. because i have been surrounded by Runaway Travelers…
two types of travelers and how film versions of books can be amazing
two types of travelers there are two types of people who travel. the first group is the Questing Travelers, those who travel because they are in search of something. spiritual awakenings, daily epiphanies, random fated connections with strangers that may only be fleeting but end up lasting a lifetime. they are the type who travel…
on how much 'hostel' sucked and they don't make scary movies like they used to
since my ear feels like an evil fairy with a blowtorch lives inside and wants to liquify my brain, i am trying to keep a low profile. an earache is just the worst. i have no appetite, no balance, and occasionally what feels like a nail driving through the side of my head. which leads…
in search of the perfect butterfly and other things
*my wrist is still sprained but cannot resist the writer’s urge to write. *i have been searching for the perfect butterfly tattoo, which will be imprinted in the weeks to come before we leave granada. i have learned that the cooler the name of the butterfly, the more plain the creature. swallowtails and metalmarks are…
moving forward
packers came today and put all of the possessions my family will keep into a container, soon to brave the wild tsunami-threatened oceans for sri lanka. moving day is always strange for me. i realised today that i have more attachment to the things that make up our home than the home itself. a carved…
a troubling turn towards conservatism
May 06, 2006 local british election results came through today with a disturbing turn towards conservatism once again. portugal recently elected an ultra-conservative president. switzerland has the most conservative government it has had in 20 years, along with france. spain currently has a socialist government, but with two simultaneous separatist movements in the basque region…
a love letter to Packing
written on a peice of a box that normally i would paint on but instead have cut into a postcard on the blank space: leaving behind my life as a girl feels much better than i thought it would where i would paint a stamp with cray-pas:thoiry, franceapril 25, 2005it feels delicious to get rid…
a love letter to Coming Home
written on a postcard of a girl with a straw hat and suitcase looking up at her family’s farmhouse in the blank space: i am glad to be here to say goodbye where the stamp would go it says:april 25, 2006thoiry, francei miss my love, so i dobut i have unfinished business herei will return…
a love letter to Seven Children
written on a postcard that is an easyJet seat tray just below the “keep closed during take-off and landing”: you are the reason people say children are angelswhere the stamp would go:april 25, 2006somewhere in the sky above switzerlandyou sat all around me on my flightyou were so young but you made not a fuss,…
a love letter to Steerek H. Love
written on a postcard with a black and white photo from the fifties of a couple about to kiss, enclosed in a red cartoon heart on the blank space it says: you are the home i have been searching for. where i always put a kiss instead of a stamp for you:granada, spainapril 18, 2006finally.
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