I have vivid memories of my religious youth — sitting in pews during Saturday evening teen masses. Teen mass was the mass where the cool older kids led the singing with a rugged, acoustic church band instead of the usual middle aged man. I’d be wearing some Mischa Barton adjacent…

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that abortions are no longer a Constitutional right. …

How to save, invest and file taxes as an American living abroad. — There is a lot to understand when it comes to American finance, and learning about it from a distance makes the information that much more difficult to digest. This article hopes to shed light on a few essential topics. …

It’s Sunday and I’ve had a very introspective day. I have started writing down my entire life story, but mostly the bad bits. …

I can tell it’s a nice day when the whole room goes from what it was before to much brighter than that. A cloud moved away somewhere above us and the sun shines down and pours through the flat. I look over Taylors shoulder and out the door. The garden…

Living in a different country can feel really soothing. In a different country, you have a lot more patience and understanding for the people around you. After all, whatever they are doing is probably a cultural thing if it feels unfamiliar and foreign. And on top of that, they aren’t…

TLDR: Please make music and then share it with me. A year ago, I was writing my very first music. Before then, I’d never really tried to write a song. I always thought making music would be impossible. Maybe like most people, I always saw a song as a whole…

I had some neighbors growing up. I remember meeting lots of them during the first days that we’d moved to my childhood home when I was eight years old — standing around with them at the edge of our yard while they explained how to pronounce their surname and passed…

I have been tickled by the C by GE Factory Reset video that General Electric made ever since I cried laughing watching it sometime about a year ago. I was sitting at my desk at work and, as I watched, a colleague passed me and melted into my laughter. Isn’t…