2013 – A Year of Travel In 65 Black and White Photographs
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Denmark: Don’t Throw Away Your Future
An open question to my Danish friends - do you truly want to emulate Arizona? Because that's the direction you're heading.
The Study Progress Reform Talking Points
Fresh off of a recent recession and in the midst o…
Two Years Away – My First Visit Back to Arizona
With my Master's thesis handed in and the clock ticking down on my time as a student, I finally set aside the funds to return to Arizona. It seemed like a perfect opportunity. My schedule was largely open, consumed on…
Fancy Danish Smorrebrod
It's delicious, it's distinctly Nordic, it's relatively healthy, and it's surprisingly more complicated than one would think. What is it? It's Danish Smørrebrød or "Smorrebrod". In the past I've written about local …
You Will Never Make Friends Sitting In A Dark Room By Yourself
It has been 22 months since I arrived at Copenhagen Airport lugging three over-sized suitcases and a backpack. I arrived in Denmark with lots of assumptions and unknowns and very little concrete data. The sum of my p…
Meeting Royalty Abroad: A Danish Prince
As an American, I find the concept of royalty intriguing. I can't say I really know where I stand on the issue. On the one hand, it seems like a fun nod to history and a great added cultural dynamic to help represent a nation's culture, heritage, and identity without many of the political trappin…
Three Hundred Twelve Boot Shots, Five Years and Five Continents
A few years ago I decided that I wanted to craft a signature photo. Something that I could easily carry with me, that I could insert into photo after photo that would help humanize shots. I wanted something that could…
Life Abroad and the Loss of Innocence
As I stepped off of the curb and down onto an old cobblestone street in the historic district of Innsbruck, I found myself musing. A few minutes earlier a light mist, far too mild to even be considered rain, had begun…
Turning 28 Abroad and Reflecting on Success
As I sit here in a small internet cafe on a blustry Turkish day in the small coastal town of Bodrum, I find it hard to believe that I'm already celebrating my 28th birthday. I suppose it isn't the most remarkable of b…
Denmark – Shame on You
There are moments when dealing with bureaucratic nonsense that leave you so stupefied you have trouble believing that what you're seeing and experiencing is real and not some complex miscommunication. After all, no pe…