Do Americans Understand Friendship?

American friendships are superficial. Period. It has taken nearly a decade for me to come to this realization.  I have spent more time in my twenties as an ex-pat than I have as an American living in the United States.   The problem doesn’t just lie within social relationships but also within lifestyles. Americans are consumers.  Read More

Always Walking On Eggshells

To protect the individuals in this article I have changed the names of the individuals.  Everything else is factual and accurate according to those who have been interviewed.   She sat on the floor sobbing with her cell phone in hand and her mother on the other end of the phone.  With crippling anxiety and ringing Read More

Can Metal Music Halt the Influence of a White Supremacist Narrative?

Phillip Age 27 Avid Metal Music Listener Earlier when we were speaking doing an Erasmus year you told me you wanted to go to Sweden. Why would you choose Sweden? “It’s an awesome country and I love the culture there. Every German guy says it’s because of the girls but that was the last thing Read More

Why in the World did This Traveler Land in Munich

(This is me at Hanging Rock in the countryside of Victoria, Australia where I lived for a year.) Read More