September 6, 2018

The King and I: How I met the Mayor

As much as it pains me to tell you this, I’m going to tell you right up front that my ongoing saga with the Spanish bureaucracy […]
October 31, 2017

Spanish Immigration: Theater of the ultra absurd

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself transported to the center of an impossible circle of stairways in a painting by M.C. Escher. So goes […]
May 21, 2016

Wronged and Prolonged: Extended travel in the German Republic

Into our third week in Germany, and we’re still spinning our heads trying to navigate the Kafkaesque channels of German bureaucracy. You have to give them […]