When I was about nine years old, my teacher informed the class that Greenland is actually icy, and Iceland is actually green. My fledgling brain couldn’t compute this fact, and I decided…
Islands, mythical and alluring, are deeply etched into the human psyche. Whether desolate and arid, or palm-fringed and romantic, islands are seen as places of escape and exile, solitude and…
The walls of my dust-covered tent shook like a toy lost in the desolate landscape, while winds screamed like an angry dragon across endless black sands. The shriek brewed with my feelings of…