IMAGE CREDIT: Sergey Bobok via Getty Images. A soldier bearing a mortar on the Eastern front. Russia’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine has entered a bloody fifth year and as someone who has followed the conflict every single day since February 2024, I regret to say there is still no end in sight. As the war grinds towards its 1,500th day, it surpasses another grim milestone, outlasting the "Great Patriotic War" that the Soviet Union waged against Nazi Germany from 19

Blog Post 24. (05/11/2022) – The “What” and “How” of working as an English Teaching Assistant in a quaint Saxon village, as well as a...

Blog Post 23. (19/09/2022) - An account of my first few weeks in the Fürstenstadt Dresden, which proved to be as chaotic as it was...

Bound for Europe again, I'll be leaving the United States behind for three years to pursue a Fulbright in Dresden, Germany.

Blog Post 21. (11/04/2021) - The "peaceful rise" of China and why America not only did little to stop it, but actually abetted it. War is...

Blog Post 20. (9/30/2021) - Part Teacher, Part Coach, Part Pirate - all parts Waldseebetreur, some of my experiences as a 2021 counselor...

Blog Post 19. (5/29/2021) - The “why now?” and the “what it means” of American Partisanship. Today’s blog will be a bit different, I...

Blog post 18. (5/21/2021) - College is done and over. What now? Three days ago, it was 80 degrees and I was sweating my way up the...

Big changes underway! I am opening a new Cuba-focused blog and will start publishing more intl. relations related blogs. New content soon.

While we're all in Quarantine, I've decided to turn the clock backwards and fill this blog up with my untold European adventures.

While we're all in Quarantine, I've decided to turn the clock backwards and fill up this blog with all the stories I've yet to publish.

Blog Post 15. (4/01/2020) - Intermission, Fargo Moorhead ‘It is not so dark here,’ said Theoden. ‘No,’ said Gandalf. ‘Nor does age lie so...

While we're all in Quarantine, I've decided to turn the clock backwards and fill up this blog with all the stories I've yet to publish.

Blog Post No 13. (21/03/2020) - Und was Bleibt? The streets are very quiet today. That’s because Fargo-Moorhead has been cancelled within...

Blog Post No 12. (09/11/2019) - Gedenkstatte Kz Neuengamme We cannot afford to overlook the tragedies and atrocities authored while...

I visit the English city of Oxford with a goal in mind. I am to find the legendary pub "The Eagle and the Child" where the Inklings met.

Blog Post No. 10 (26/10/2019) - Point of Departure Bremenhaven has been a gateway to the new world for nearly 200 years, the...

An ascent up the haunted mountain by twilight, and descent in the dark. Wind howling, mist flowing, witches everywhere, what could go wrong?

Oktoberfest... the culmination of Bavarian fall spirit at the epicenter of the German cultural apparatus... at long last!

Blog Post No.7 (02/10/2019) - Ernste Unternehmen 12:15 - I enter into the IHK lobby and bounce between a few receptionists for different...