Blog

Lost in Translation

Well, this is interesting. When I booked my train trip from Dresden to London - with connections in Hanover, Cologne, and Brussels - I knew it was complicated but I didn't think I would run into any major problems. After all, I had left three hours of buffer time for my transfer in Brussels. But …

Read more

Silos suck.

It's common knowledge that one can do a job well, or do it quick, but rarely is it possible to do both. And in the glacial pace of government policymaking, often neither criteria is satisfied. Such is the case with the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). …

Read more

Untss untss untss untss (repeat)

Being away from home, far from my guitar and microphones, has put a digital spin on my songwriting and composing lately. In keeping with my idea of making an EP for each city I live in, I've written a few songs inspired by my time in Lausanne. The problem is, I can't record them until I'm back in …

Read more

We have a new winner.

This is it. The Best Tea Ever In The Whole World. Which is saying a lot, if you've heard me recount what was formerly my best tea experience. The now-second-place tea was a wonderfully strong, throat-scorchingly spicy chai that was homemade from scratch by my youth pastor's Indian parents at a …

Read more