What If the Axis of Evil Served You Watermelon?
…imperceptible at first — a long glance, a quieter voice. The woman, seated across from me, looked at her children with an expression I now recognize as a kind of…
How Pure Is Pure Enough? Asking for a Carpenter From Nazareth
…it should come with a mop in this week’s Camino a Ítaca. Thus was born: “How pure is pure enough? Asking for a carpenter from Nazareth.” in the SUR in English….
Shit Floats
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca a look at how mediocrity seems to rise to power here in Spain. This of course happens everywhere, but here in Spain there seems…
Half a Million Reasons
The Camino a Ítaca is in no way linear, it circles and loops and starts all over again. As spring turns Cáceres into the allergy sufferers nightmare, another event takes places,…
🦄 Send in the Unicorns
…a unicorn. A small, shimmering lie. A symbol of purity, sure — but also of imagination as survival. The mythical beast began as a hallucination scribbled by Mesopotamian dreamers —…
About me
…The Straits Times, The Calgary Herald, Khaleej Times, DW-World, Rabble, and El País. As a regular op-ed writer, he contributes the bi-weekly column Camino a Ítaca for the Spanish newspaper…
Grandpa’s Newspapers
…it’s a story that could easily be told in German, Russian, Romanian, Albanian or Cambodian. It’s a story that will be told again in Argentina and in the good ‘ol…
The Great Unravelling
…countries were wearing.” The Camino a Ítaca climbs the Statue of Liberty this week for a look around to see what is left of something precious that we once took…
The Age of Mean
…a middle finger raised to anything resembling decency. In this week’s Camino a Ítaca, a long, bittersweet gaze back to when empathy wasn’t a punchline, and “love thy neighbor” wasn’t…
The Purity Panic: Notes from the Museum of Imaginary Nations
…sealed museum and more like a bustling kitchen. In the Spanish version of the piece (my bi-weekly “Camino a Ítaca” in HOY) I take the same theme and ask: Why…