I always saw pictures of Westerners in Thailand at temples with their hands folded--what to me seemed like a hokey pose that didn't seem particularly respectful. That is, until I found myself there getting suckered into the very same things.
Similarity and Singularity
We have only a little time to please the living, but all eternity to love the dead.
Street Art in Lorca
Pictures I managed to take in between day drinking and cute boys.
Marvelous Multicultural Multilingual Malta
Wait, where is Malta again?
Bienvenidos a Murcia
My first update from Murcia!
Getting whipped in Brno
Beware of going to church on Easter Monday in Eastern Europe. At least make sure that your legs are covered.
Jews & Goths & East Berlin, oh my!
Finding pieces of identity, scattered throughout the German capital like pieces of the old wall.
Poland’s Czarny Protest
Today nearly 20,000 marched on the streets of Wrocław to protest a draconian anti-abortion bill, with the hashtag #czarnyprotest (black protest).
Gaudí, light, and the holy spirit
When I was 18, I went to Israel as part of a Birthright trip. I was raised as a reform Jew, pretty relaxed and unorthodox, although my parents are by no means non-believers. At 18, I was definitely going through my jaded atheist phase. As part of the trip, we went to Jerusalem and visited …