I brought my ukulele to the Royal Palace of Antananarivo. The tour guides and souvenir hawkers were curious to hear it and play it. So I let them.

I brought my ukulele to the Royal Palace of Antananarivo. The tour guides and souvenir hawkers were curious to hear it and play it. So I let them.
I’m on a road trip across the western United States, and the fact that I live in Madagascar keeps coming up in conversations with complete strangers. People just ask me where I live—after I shamelessly bait …
When the prince and the princess from The Princess and the Pea go out of town for a weekend getaway, I figure it looks something like this.
I just went up and down the entire main street in my neighborhood saying “Meese pants” over and over again. Exhibit A: Edwin Meese wearing pants The errand started with me going from shop to shop …
The two boys were in an intense match. I thought of taking photo, but I didn’t want to distract them.
The kind of skinny dog who survives on scraps and garbage. Someone had given her a good portion of a fish, and life was good.
I was sitting in a dentist’s waiting room in an Adventist Dental Center in Antananarivo, Madagascar. On the TV was some kind of closed-circuit religious programming that mostly involved cheerful white people in a talk show …
The Dizzy Brains: Imagine The Strokes with real problems, not just First World Problems.
Here’s a coincidence. One year ago today I hiked down to Indian Garden in the Grand Canyon with my backpacker guitar and wrote a song called I’ve Done the Math.
A trip to Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, and Mitsinjo Reserve.
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