Fernweh & Heimweh in the time of corona
Fernweh (German noun) — a feeling of longing for far-away places. Heimweh (German noun) — a feeling of longing for home; homesickness. This pandemic takes from us in so many […]
Fernweh (German noun) — a feeling of longing for far-away places. Heimweh (German noun) — a feeling of longing for home; homesickness. This pandemic takes from us in so many […]
Like loving the outdoors, live music and the ritual of brewing a pourover coffee, my involvement with radio isn’t something I found at random in adult life. More like: It […]
Folk-bluegrass supergroup I’m With Her are playing their first show in Berlin, and they’ve already discovered the nude sunbathers in Tiergarten. That feeling, lying around hedonistically under the trees, is […]
“Go simple, go solo, go now.” The mantra of the late, great paddling legend Audrey Sutherland is solid advice in all kinds of situations, whether gathering your guts for an […]
The oldest of the three Santa-suit-clad stand up paddlers squints his eyes against the falling snow and eyes my inflatable kayak, bobbing at the foot of Molecule Man, with friendly […]
On average, over 150,000 human beings die each day. But on January 10th, one of those people was David Bowie, and such was the creative brilliance of this artist, that […]
Once again, it’s December in Berlin – the month in which snow falls and Christmas markets spring up like mushrooms, the scent of Glühwein wafting from every corner store. A […]
In which my Resting Bitch Face slips and a would-be smooth talker ends up telling me his life story. Sometimes, all you can do is listen.
It has been a sad spring for everyone. Now summer is almost here; the days are getting hotter, and it’s raining today in Ulsan. (Rain always reminds me of summer. […]
South Korea is on edge. A government official has been sacked for initiating an employee group picture at the port where the Sewol victims’ parents were waiting. A politician has been demonized […]
Thessaloniki. City on the sea, crowned with crumbling ruins, ancient ramparts looking out to the Aegean. On my extended weekend here in late March, I left planning and organization behind […]
Thursday, Feb. 27, 8:35 p.m., Berlin’s Astra Kulturhaus. Billy Lockett’s soft, earnest vocals drift in a cloud of smoke out the open venue door, as I huddle in the entry […]
Danyang is a town of 30,000 people in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. In front of the Danyang Bus Terminal, there is a big red bridge across a big river. […]
Before I left for a semester abroad in Bonn, Germany my junior year of college, I learned about culture shock. In a mandatory pre-trip orientation, a zany, somewhat obnoxious staff […]
WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities in Organic Farming) means you get free housing and food in return for your labor at a host farm. It started in the 1970s in Scotland, […]
A year has passed since my nostalgic days in exile, grumping around my college campus while longing for the knifelike cold of a Berlin winter. The appeal is hard to […]
When Nomad News‘ Caitlin Hardee and I first met, we discovered that we had something unusual in common. At our respective college radio stations, we each produced and hosted a weekly […]
Hi guys. Here are some cool sounds from South Korea. They’re no “Gangnam Style,” which I’m sick of anyway, but I like them and I hope you like them too. […]
A few months into my new life in South Korea, this is my first Nomad dispatch. I’ve been living here in Incheon since the beginning of September. I came here […]
Koreans like kimchi. There’s cabbage kimchi, cucumber kimchi, radish kimchi; kimchi can be seasoned with apricot, fish, shrimp; there’s kimchi stew, kimchi pancake, kimchi burger, “Shinkimchi” (kimchi that has been […]
I have a serious problem watching movies all the way through. Blame it on the insidious influence of Twitter and constant Internet exposure on our brains, insatiable hunger for trivial […]
I received some excellent news on Friday, Sept. 28—a mere two days before my last written departure deadline, word came through from the Ausländerbehörde that my application for a visa […]
Is it worth it? That’s the question everyone seems to be asking about The New York Move, which, if you’re a twenty-something college graduate from somewhere in the Northeast, is […]
Another blog, another beginning. I intend to maintain Midnight Monsoon and Nomad Musik as part of my portfolio, but each corresponds to a phase in my life and writing that […]