photo from the Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana below are blogposts from my Fulbright year in Slovenia

It was inevitable, this love. I could have predicted it. I saw it out there in the sea four years … More

In Celje, we climbed the stairs of the arsenal–walls 3 meters deep. We stood at the top and looked across … More

After I went to Prague last month, I began writing prose poems like crazy, inspired by some intangible element I … More

This photograph was taken at Tolminska Korita, in the mouth of the cave, Zadlaška jama. After eating trout from the … More

As April 7th approaches, I anticipate what has become inevitable these last few years: sudden emotional unraveling as I move through spring. … More

There we were: a biologist, an environmental geographer, a law professor and a writer, in my Ljubljana kitchen, each of … More

We sat at a mountaintop cafe eating walnut bread, drinking hot tea and brandy. “What’s this herb called in English?” … More