Part I: America

It’s hard to say exactly how it happened, my becoming a moustache aficionado, that is. It’s not like I just woke up one morning with this handsome bastard on my upper lip and thought to myself, “Wow, sexy!” No, the idea grew slowly, charming its way into my heart.

“The past reflects eternally between two mirrors—the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn’t do or say.” – Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

            As I plunged into a dreamless sleep, I wondered if we’d really make our flight in the morning. We quit drinking sometime early in the a.m. when the bar cut us...

One of my idiosyncrasies, I guess you’d call it, is that I like to read the book before I see the movie. Of course, this only applies to books/movies that interest me in the first place, so it’s not a complete obsession; rest assured I’m not out there reading every book that some...

So I’ve been kicking around the idea of teaching ESL abroad. The idea first came to me while backpacking through Europe last summer. I met a number of people who had taught English in various places and it struck me as the most feasible way to support long-term travel plans (since I wasn’t born into...