5.26.18 NUENHEERSE, GERMANY — Today I went to the small town of Neuenheerse to meet my host mother, Doris Dressel, and two sisters, Melanie and Tamara. 30 years ago, sometime in August, I packed a year's worth of clothes in 2 bags and said farew…
My mind goes on little trips while I'm commuting. This morning: A parking lot outside the art space in Germany where we'd have punk/alternative nights. I was 18. Yvonne smoking as I kept her company on the side of the building, sitting on a…
I was awake 6 hours in Dakar and we had had a moonwalk dance lesson from Boris, pet goats in the street, got hauled into a family dance fete with 14 people packed into the front room that's the size of the Vertex bathroom and I had a mini dance s…
I've been awake 6 hours in Senegal. I maneuvered the Dakar airpirt, which is a justifiable assault by hack and real cab drivers .... Because my adopted famiky here got me. In this time Boris tried to teach me to moonwalk. I had a mini dance part…
Dom and Tessa found the tarantula on the plank and after three days, Tessa was determined to hold it. Scared to death of them, it was a good 15-minute inner psyche battle to do it and a personal victory of appreciating ALL the creatures in the Amazo…
This time last year I was peeing .... That's right, peeing ... At my friend's house in Managua, Nicaragua, when the earth sounded as if giant gears from deep within were cranking it open and my insides rumbled with it at my core. Even if I&#…
My girl Tanya has shared with some of the best music for traveling — for staring out the train window and running where your mind takes you. "Fluke" by Puppy is one. And this. [http://vimeo.com/69957393] I can't imagine how many time…
Rockin' this today and remembering what it means as the metal heats up on my skin. And I think being a badass means being brave, and often times that does not involve being tough or having the skin thick enough that things don't get you. G…
When you need to go for a walk with your friend's mom to see her ministry she's building with ladies from her church and it's a 1.5-mile walk on the Pamodzi village dirt paths, and you only have high sandals? You wear - no, you rock -…
