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Wonderwall
Turning indoor wall climbing into a metaphor because everything is just a metaphor for something
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
All Those Damn Doors
Life often feels like a series of doors that become firmly shut behind you as you go forward to open new ones.
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
Someone, Please Save the Dates
Dates, weddings, and frustrations that came with being a gay single man in Manila
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
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April 2023
Talking Myself into Me
Learning a new language made me see the person I've been from the very start.
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
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January 2023
On Moroccan Winter Nights, a Traveler (Second in a Series)
You'll never forget your first, or so they say.
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
On Moroccan Winter Nights, a Traveler (First in a Series)
For the holidays, we went on a vacation in Morocco — my first time in the country and the African continent.
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
August 2022
May 2022
A New Language for the New World
We need new myths to forge towards our uncertain futures, but they need to be founded on established historical truths.
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
March 2022
There Are Wild Boars in Rome
And it's wonderful
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
February 2022
I Don't Understand
The French phrase for the week is: Je ne comprends pas. In English: I don’t understand. In high school, we had a substitute teacher who spoke French and…
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
Valentines Schmalentines
I volunteer to be the Valentine's Scrooge.
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
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