Passion Projects
It’s early March, I’m in New York City. Nobody’s wearing a mask yet. Oblivious or incredulous, we’re all standing shoulder to shoulder at stoplights, sitting knee to knee on subways, and you can see our breath. I’m up early preparing […]
This winter in Kuwait couldn’t have been more pleasant. I’ve walked along the beach almost every morning, watching the barges and battleships bob, watching fishermen reel in their catch against the mild ocean current, and watching stray cats watching too, […]
Note: In Kuwait, it’s illegal to have alcohol, pork or porn. Hopefully ‘food porn’ is exempt, or I’m about to get sent back to the U.S. on a disappointing technicality. It has been difficult to understand food shopping here in […]
I’m watching windsurfers carve the Persian Gulf on a bright Sunday afternoon. It’s been a blustery weekend, colder than normal, and there are even waves trying to bite the tidy ankles of the shoreline. The Plume Labs air quality reading […]
It’s impossible to say what Kuwait is like, having lived here three days. It seems exotic in the way new things always are. Even the driving, where everyone converges at once on a single lane, horns squealing like five-year-olds in […]
I’m moving to Kuwait. I typed that while flying there. It’s a simple flight, like going almost anywhere else. Dulles to Dubai, Dubai to Kuwait. If we weren’t stopping in Dubai for a night, we’d be there in a little […]