Henk en Cees — Benidorm, winter ’89 By the time Henk and Cees arrived at the Sunset, I already had a name in town. La chica de los sombreros — the girl with the hats. It had started in Ibiza, with a purple one, and grown its own legend the way nicknames do when nobody…
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“Why I Write My Lived Adventures”
(and Why I’ll Never Write to Please Expectations) There’s a particular kind of irony in being told how to tell your own story. I’ve spent years as an anthropologist there, an entrepreneur, and a sand sculptor—yes, you read that right; my first real “career” involved earning a living with a gigantic blanket on the beach,…
“Lupin, Kryptonite & Knives”
The Lupin Effect: Finding Balance in an Age of Neurological Overload In an era where images of conflict in Gaza arrive unfiltered on our screens with an immediacy unknown to previous generations, we face a peculiar neurological dilemma. Our primitive brains are overfed while our limbic systems, responsible for complex emotional processing, are increasingly silenced….
The C.O.M.C. Files 