Photo by Baltimore Heritage from Baltimore, MD, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Every city has religious landmarks, places where the pious or curious can enter into. Some leave those places with a tangible reminder of their visit—a stone or card. Others leave with a...
Photo: Baltimore Heritage – Gundry/Glass Hospital (2015), CC BY 2.0 It had gotten to the point that if I didn’t get out to explore an abandoned building more often, I began to lose sleep, like a thief with one more safe I had to crack. I suppose I was what...
Photo by Maximilien Brice, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Inspired by a visit to CERN, Switzerland I come back home with my head filled with physics and heart filled with awe and start chattering to you. I gush about colliding particles and invisible dark matter...
Photo: Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons On another too-long country daytrip, the father flapped jaws with the farmer, taking on his accent and mannerisms. Even at four, the girl found this silly. “Why is Daddy talking like that?” she asked the mother as...
Photo:Willis Lam, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The post-modern painting forced into this context of high-key low-brow art again greets you as you begin your shift. A gobsmacked cousin of a Keith Haring hound, its fuel ever-hovering above empty, always catches...
Photo: Vincents productions, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Six years ago in a study abroad dorm in Copenhagen I held a tub of peanut butter between my hands while Carissa peeled an apple beside me, we giggled like we were back in the fourth grade. Dipping the...
