Washington — Nothing I own is waterproof. See, in California we have two seasons: hot and not-that-hot. Sometimes it rains, and when that happens you just wait until it stops to do anything. But on the other sid...
Madrid — Heading to Madrid was a spontaneous decision after deciding to cut our trip short in Amsterdam. We had initially pondered going to Paris, but decided against it. The unfriendliness of the french to en...
Amsterdam — My first experience with the country occurred with my train arrival at 11.30pm. The station was seedy and surprisingly I discovered that the metro was located outside of the train station. Despite hea...
Hannover — My time in Hannover was one of both joy and sorrow. I was not there to sight see but to see the paternal side of my family. I was able to meet my 85 yo grandfather who as you can see by the photo is b...
Solna — I was clutching your keys on the way to your apartment Put the box of ecological vegetables that you’d ordered inside Locked, dropped the keys in your mailbox A last look at your building This is ...
Null — I’ve lived in New York my entire life. Even though I go to Florida often, New York is what I call home. Born and raised, you could say. I know many different versions of it too. There’s the one with s...
Manchester — After a month between places living out of suitcases and never quite getting our washing dry. It feels good to be here at last. Sometimes it seemed some crazy slip of timing, an unresolved snag in t...
Hong kong — I was in Hong Kong two weeks ago to spend my long overdue holiday which was desperately needed. As much as I love my city, its hustling and bustling lifestyle can sometimes be too much, and eventually...
Shanghai — I met Rinnie about two years ago at a friend’s event in Shanghai. My first impression of her was an active, beautiful mom-to-be whom still enjoyed going out and socializing with her girlfriends. I tho...
Jones mills — Hello my name is OMG BRUH my parents were stupid anyway i have joined this website to talk crap about diafereeis this is a seriously insane case of the pewp and poop like omg it is stressful that i ha...
Bangkok — The ballet tattoo. Your signature. The simple, unfinished line almost made me chuckle. Yet, it draws me most…as next to it, another simple line doodled into a pretty little girl. The little child, a...
Renick — For one, I’m not an animal person. I and another woman, Sarah, have spent these past two weeks farm-sitting in West Virginia for a woman who’s vacationing in Maine. Without prior experience or any su...
Springfield — I was born in Springfield, and three days ago was my first time back since my parents moved to Ohio. On the ten hour drive here, I realized the real reason I had always wanted to come back is because ...
Lewisburg — It’s gotta be less about recognition and more about conviction. A TED speaker said that of our political movements these days, fueled by a generation that demands result without aim, policy without pr...
Saskatoon — Childhood is a time for growth, much like any part of life, but childhood often influences how we behave in most aspects of our lives. I know, from experience, that those behaviours and habits are ver...
Saskatoon — So, as it is with my life, once every few months, something happens. These “somethings” are irritating, to say the least, and I would greatly prefer if they didn’t creep up on me, but alas, I can admi...
Antipolo — I need to do mess better. I try so hard. I really do. I am learning to go with her flow. I am trying not to control. I let her use all the colors. I let her draw stripes on her leg so she can be a “s...
Antipolo — On my shelf is a wonderful book called The Artful Parent, which teaches parents how to bring out their children’s creativity. In the morning, before her after-lunch bath time, Ella plays with her art ...
Hong kong — So, I moved to Hong Kong six months back from Bangalore, India. This was such a huge change for me. I don’t really remember everything that happened at the time: it just happened too fast. But, it is...
Green bay — To those who work out and those who worship. To those who write and those who wander. To those who have something they care about so much, they join the sunrise welcoming committee. “If someone re...
Melbourne — Everybody would like to go to a nice party and forget about all the problems in the everyday world for a while. Going to different parties is what makes our lives a little more interesting. When you g...
Berlin — After catching an ICE train from Praha to Berlin hbf, Jason, Lien and I parted ways. Picking me up from the train station was my cousin Mi (daughter to my dad’s older sister) who then took me back to ...
Green bay — I’m snacking on some crunchy pretzel chips and hummus and I’m wondering, what do computers get out of the deal? Is it possible that computers like when we care for them? That they respond better when...
Xilinguole meng — I am here because I am an illegal employee in the People’s Republic of China.The idea was to work on the tourist visa while my employer sorted out the paper work for my legal work visa. In the meantim...
San jose del monte city — I was feeling bored yesterday and I wanted to read a random stories over the internet. I intentionally searched the word “hi” on Google to see what are the results Google will show me. Then, in out-of...
Hong kong — I guess I always wanted such a platform where I could share my stories, beside my blog. I technically don’t want to get into writing as a career. I like astronomy (as my username suggests), but I know...
Praha 3 — On the way home I bumped into my housemate who I discovered had just moved to the Czech Republic to do his Erasmus - a common study exchange program found across many European countries in which you s...
Praha 3 — Met up with Jason (housemate) and Lien (his gf) today at the Old town square before heading out on an adventure (paid tour) to Kutna Hora. Known for it’s Silver mine which brought vast wealth to the B...
Praha 3 — Today I went with a FREE Sandeman walking tour around the old town and sites to behold. It went for about 5 hours and my walking host Martin added a lot of richness of history and wit to enhance the e...
Kennett square — Cogitating Trees. Oil on cotton, 8 by 10 inches. I rode my foldable bike over to Anson B. Nixon Park to explore more of the park. It is a lovely park, a jewel of Kennett Square. It was the last day o...
München — Packed up my things and checked out of the hotel in the morning. Caught up with the rest of the gang (Dave/Cecelia/Sandy/Georgina/Jason/Lien) for bfast. Wandered around for ages before we settled on a...
Sugar land — You know you’re falling asleep when you rock your head back and forth and you hesitate; maybe forget what you were going to do. When your eyes are hazed and you cradle yourself until your head starts ...
München — Breakfast at the hotel - classic spread of cold cuts and bread. Headed to Hotel Bayers to meet with David/Cecilia/Sandy/Georgina. We went to the Oktoberfest festival area and waited in line to get a t...
Ndola — Ever take a moment to wonder what Life is all about? Sounds like a really basic question doesn’t it, but is it? In reality very few people seem to ever deeply consider what meaning they attach to Life...
München — 3 x 7-8 hr flights and 1-2 hour layovers in-between and 1 baby jump to get to my first destination. Melbourne > Brunei > Dubai > London > Munich. Such a deathly flight. We landed in Munich...
Joplin — The first time I walked into Pinocchio Dance, I knew it was the one. I was 4. I didn’t think of competitions until about 3 years ago, when my dance teacher, Ms. Heather,* got her own studio. Briley Pe...
Niland — Part of an abandoned service station, decorated with graffiti..Bombay Beach, Salton Sea Ca
Niland — Discarded toys in an abandoned house in Bombay Beach, Salton Sea Ca
Niland — Inside an abandoned service garage, Bombay Beach, Salton Sea Ca
Niland — Inside an abandoned mobile home, Bombay Beach, Salton Sea Ca.
Chandler — As a child, I absolutely worshiped my parents. I thought they were gods. Then I became a teenager and realized why everyone hates teenagers. Teenagers are essentially irresponsible and impulsive adult...
Tallinn — Giving and taking advice is such a dangerous thing, because everyone has their own truth. Also the truth changes every day, if not every moment. This is why it’s super important for me to do whatever...
Ahmedabad — I think I was spending a little too much of time in pursuit of truth and disseminating to people who care a hoot. Something of one against many because others are mute spectators or silent supporters ...
Mill valley — That is why, I think, I move forward with the need of going somewhere and getting there with all my very being. That is the challenge—that is the beauty of struggling with the unknown. Life is a game ...
Singapore — Normally I don’t talk about my grandma/Ahma as it was personal but Today I woke up and I thought “Why the F*ck Not.” (Normally at this age you learnt to curse..Am I right?). Well let’s began My ahma ...
Glen allen — This Word is more than just a Word. This Word is a truth and it is a song. It is a knowledge that everything around you has more to show you than what you are currently seeing. Listen to this Word. It...
Sugar land — The raindrops weren’t just pouring. They were jumping and running and swooshing and straddling around. Rain came out of no where; like a brief rustle of wind in between the trees of a forest. My fami...
Philadelphia — Final Days of Summer. Underneath the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. No shelter from the hot afternoon sun. Parched. At least the occasional breeze brought some relief. The river kindly offered, “I’ve water...
Randburg — Sulile. Have you seen her? I had no idea who she was talking about. Sue-Lee-Lay—surely you’ve met her? Sulile swung by my office on her way out and I finally recognised her: it was Brenda. Do I c...
London — Travel,Travel,Travel It’s all I want to do but how can I start my journey without you You make it light when it’s not bright My dream job involves travel but will you be there when I hit the gravel M...
Aireys inlet — On our small acreage I have left many wild thickets (like the one pictured here) to grow without disturbance for 37 years. Apart from its beauty, this strategy has major value in the war against clima...
Toronto — Apparently I wasn’t getting the message? First the 10 of Clubs, then a 5 of Spades… and now the Knight of Pentacles. I know what this one is about, at least: job and money. The role change I’ve be...
Sugar land — Circles, circles. I walk in circles around this rather big campus. No one ever said it was easy to make friends in a place where you don’t really know anyone. I mean, freshman year in college? Maybe y...
Marseille —
Pune — Unlike the cool and pleasant weather of Pune, it has been warm. Though there hasn’t been any hue and cry about the weather around me, so it didn’t feel like a big deal until it rained today after what...
Elizabeth city — You’re the mirror I see Each morning when I wake You’re the window of my soul Each and every night When I see the mirror On the wall Your face is all I see It is all I need When I look at the Window...
Accra — The sun is almost set …. and the homes have started switching on their lights. This moment right here, has always been interesting for me - How the day is perhaps a different world from the evening,...
Elizabeth city — Beside the lake He was like fresh air Infusing life back into her The touch of morning Was shivering by the lake In the cacophony of conformity She lost her voice You can hear the doom As she could ...
Philadelphia — Memorial Day Weekend: It was cool under shade. Lemon Hill Mansion was right behind me and downtown Philadelphia was about two miles to my left, and the afternoon air was echoing with the Made in Ameri...
Elizabeth city — Like an old tree falling down Defeat was bitter indeed As the silence was shattered By a scream Like a canvas untouched By an artist Dreams of spirits, monsters And other things Whispers of silence ...
West hollywood — As I mentioned in my previous article, people don’t like to feel right now it’s 2:34 am, and I am the best example of that article at this moment. It’s almost as if I had a premonition and, as a resu...
Kennett square — When my friend and I were helping a relative clean his apartment, this print of The Blue Ridge Mountains, Asheville North Carolina nearly ended up in the trash. I have lost a great number of beautiful...
West hollywood — I’ve been wanting a second tattoo since I got Lady Gaga’s autograph tattooed on my wrist at 18. I’m now 23, and of course I’ve had fleeting ideas, that come and go whether it’s because I dismiss it du...
Ahmedabad — I never got over the irony of politicians who wants to eliminate caste from the society. Not a single step to this direction is evident. This morning when I read an item that Rajkot cops are now remov...
Chicago — The 195 ft. bridge near Ping Tom Park. Chicago at its finest.
Chicago — Wentworth Ave: A lived in street.
Holden — The uppermost section of Holden Reservoir is cut off by a road, leading to still water and, by the end of summer, quite a collection of water lilies and lily pads. I cycle past this pool once or twice...
Accra — The Next Day. Sometimes he has conversations with her while she is not there. Let’s talk about dreams she says. “What did you dream of becoming when you were a child ?” I can’t really say. It is h...
Accra — It’s all quiet here now… This place where most young people come to discover their freedom. One by one , they are packing home. They are leaving the life these structures … these tall elegant buil...
Lungsod quezon — My goal in life is, essentially, to do work that affords me what amounts to an endless summer: spend Christmas and summer in the Philippines (they’re consecutive seasons in this part of the world), an...
Auckland — I think that it’s time to celebrate. The dandelions are in full bloom, and the sun has started to come out. I enjoy this feeling. It’s like Auckland’s come out from under a grey blanket to see the sun...
Ahmedabad — Having travelled for my reporting assignments across the country (barring a few states) and that too in the most remote and primitive areas, I never felt India as a single country. Having different cu...
Chicago — A city in a cloud. A cloud in a city.
West hollywood — As I lay here, almost exactly one week later I am reflecting on the foggy 7.5 days before. I know you are departing today, the passion and love and relief of loneliness. Your presence has been a tempo...
Barcelona — The advantages of chatting and texting are clear: it is cheap, it is fast, it is omnipresent. However, it also transformed radically the way how we communicate. Chats and instant message applications ...
Tallinn — People just want me to have a job. They want to finally be able to take a label and stick it on me. They want to take me and drop me into a category. This will give their mind clarity and peace. They ...
Chicago — Wherever we step motor oil leads the way, and plantago major follows.
Overland park — As I quietly hummed along to my favorite song playing one night in my car, I realized, with his hand in mine, that I loved that boy just like I loved my favorite song. A song I would never get tired o...
San francisco — Tomorrow, I turn 32. The other day I went to a fitness class. The kind that is attended almost entirely by women and which has a certain aesthetic. It’s clean. Perfumed. Orderly. The exercises lack c...
Auckland — I’ve lived here for all my life, even though it may be short, and I now know that this city is our very own for a reason - life. Our lives are entwined around the harmony between nature and man, givin...
Antwerpen — It is’t that frequent to have a BBQ within ancient monastery walls. Even less frequent to be overlooked by statues of the apostles, sitting on the private half, whereas the Church owned area is devote...
Jefferson county — The mountains are calling and I must go.
Dubai — My feet itched when my watch said 10:50 PM. The gates were just opened. Eager people lined up the counter. Balikbayans, as we endearingly call them, translates to literally: those who return to the co...
Sugar land — On the 17th of August, when the sun could be seen at the edge of the horizon and all of our suitcases had been packed, we made our way out to the front of the family apartment. I never liked goodbyes....
Tarabulus — In the heart of Libya lies a city. This city contains all of the remnants of what Libyan culture used to be like; how people used to live, old houses that are now empty, street names made out of marbl...
Toronto — A week later, a random 5 of Spades appeared, nearly half a kilometre away. It was from the same deck, by all appearances. Do people really lose their cards in parks that often?
Toronto — What are the intrinsic qualities of a book? What defines its bookishness? If you can no longer read the words, but can still discern the medium, is it still a book? Or does it cease to have its meani...
Firenze — She looked at me tauntingly. Her eyes dancing playfully as her magnetism became harder to escape. She sat there alone in a corner, waiting, to be thrust into desperate arms. She emanates with an odor ...
New delhi — It turns out Delhi is a little chillier than I was expecting. There’s a softness to the air, rather how I imagine it would feel to wander through a cloud. The coolness gently tickles and caresses th...
Weston-super-mare — The Bemusement Park by Banksy and friends in the old lido on Weston-super-Mare’s front. There was no queueing nightmare (20 mins but it had been pissing it down all day until then) and for £3 (cash o...
London — Since I can remember, car trips were always a limbo kind of space for me, mostly because I have the unfathomable ability of falling asleep in a matter of minutes. Soon after the car started moving, I...
Kennett square — two sparrows came to visit me outside my bedroom window. hello there, they said, may we hang around for a minute or two? of course, I said, please come by as often as you please. thank you Danny, ...
Edinburgh — Slowly, as if waking from a restless dream, the city stirred and woke. Its eyes; windows and darkened glass, looked out into the morning and blinked as blinds were raised. sketches toward The Messiah...
West hollywood — I’m going to start with a tiny background, a surface level framework of what makes up Henk. I grew up with two parents, one a biological mother, the other an adoptive father which at five years old I ...
Barcelona — There were no many plans, the idea was just to wander around, in a flâneurish style, or stay in bed: not much to do, not many places to be, just “be” for a while. But it didn’t happen. It’s logic how ...
Nipissing, unorganized, south part — The rain started. At the junction of Potter’s Creek and Joe Lake, forked lightning struck with a crack of thunder following just a few seconds later. Without hesitation, we headed for an old dock acro...
Pemenang — The beach was quiet as the sun went down. You could hear the endless rhythm of waves breaking on the shallow reef and a group of Indonesians drumming around a fire to the south. I stood with the sea f...
Prestonpans — … though the environment won’t, Cockenzie on the Firth of Forth was the UK’s least carbon efficient power station, pulverising local and latterly Russian coal, then blowing the dust into a furnace wit...
Saskatoon — I had a high spinal cord injury while I was being born which affected two parts of my brain, the automatic nervous system, and the part of my brain which controls the physical parts of my body. As a r...
Sos del rey católico — I can’t stop looking at this photo, which I took a month ago. There’s just something in it, this combination of beauty, wonder, movement, and loneliness, that strikes me deeply. Come to think of it —...