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Saturday, December 20, 2025

Travelmarx Winter 2025 Playlist – Black Sheep Boy

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A composite image of 36 albums used in this playlist. “I’m the family’s unowned boy”...We like that phrase from Okkervil River song "B...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Transplants, Time, and the Stranger Within

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When we first wrote about living abroad, we described the experience as a kind of transplanting: uprooting from familiar soil and learning t...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

The Noise on the Walls: Urban Static

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64 images of graffiti and murals captured by  Travelmarx over the years. W alking around Bergamo, we often pass the same walls over and over...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Living the Dream (Beta)

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  Living the Dream™ app inputs (left) and output (right). The app can never be built. A friend said to us once, "You two are living th...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Becoming a Little Less Grinchy: Rethinking Ritual Inversions

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I’ve always been a little allergic to Christmas cheer. The carols, the shopping frenzy, the forced smiles—they all felt hollow. But reading ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Lanzarote: Notes from a Brief Botanical Infatuation

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Two Worlds, Two Climates ~  Group 1: Plants Seen Out and About ~  Group 2: Patterns from the Jardín de Cactus ~  Why These Plants Stayed ...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Lanzarote - In the Layers

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      Left: Pit vineyards in La Geria, Lanzarote. Center left: Mirador Near Ermita de Las Nieves. Center right: Jardín de Cactus  | CACT Lan...