Inventing the Sci-Fi genre at age 18 required a radical upbringing. This all started because my sister bought me a stunning, green and...

A celebration of science and spirit. I’ve started a little tradition for myself. I never leave La Sagrada Familia Cathedral without...

OMG, they were tomb-mates I’m going to rip the bandaid off real quick here by letting all my gaybies know that there is significant (as...

And why you feel like an a-hole for complaining about it now. Churches in Europe are on a whole other level, man. And yet I’m somehow...

And why it matters in the age of anti-abortion, nuclear threats, and civil rights As long as I’ve been alive, my family’s told the same...

The trickster archetype narrator and how to utilize it. “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also...

A travel writing exercise and fan cross-over Woman in the Garden This piece is going to be different from my usual historical pieces....

Processing 2020 in a cemetery so you don’t have to. A few weeks after the presidential election was called back in my home country, the...

The history behind America’s billion-dollar wage theft problem and how to fight it. Hardly any of the bus drivers at the tour companies I...

The story of an Americana darling and his living shadow. I’m mad at Mark Twain right now. If you follow along with my writing (and you...

What’s more interesting than the history a public statue represents? How that statue got there in the first place. It occurs to me that I...

Legacy can be slippery... I had an existential crisis in Porto, Portugal and, I don’t want to blame specific people, but J.K. Rowling,...

Tips and tricks to humor your depression. Satire noun The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize...

Finding a writing community on the other side of the world. In San Francisco, I had a routine. Every Sunday morning at 11, I’d meet my...

And I've got the freaky historical evidence to prove it. Come along, dear reader, on a racist, xenophobic, antisemitic journey through...

This. Changes. Everything. Mitri the Scribe was once the highest-paid servant of Pharaoh Unas in the 24th century BC. He was the guy you...

The Satirical Genius and Revolutionary Feminism of Lola Montez. “I expect to win the gratitude of the whole masculine gender by these...

I’ll hold off on the clichés if you can put up with a personal story. The Gothic District of Barcelona is a winding maze of cobblestone...