Sean Paul Kelley

The Brunette are heading down to the Lower Rio Grande Valley this week for our spring break. Here are the place we’ll be staying: El Rocio Retreat, Mission Texas, Chachalaca Inn, Los Fresnos, Texas, Alamo Inn, Alamo Texas. And here are some of the parks we’ll be visiting: Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Las Palomas Unit, Boca Chica State Park, Palo [...]

Advertisers according to Banksy: ?People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you?re not sexy enough and that all the [...]

On the Arabian Sea-side of Mumbai sits a white jewel of a shrine in the midst of the sapphire waters. The causeway out to the shrine is about three-fourths of a kilometer long. I visited it one day in 2005. What I saw will haunt me forever. Even now, seven years in remove, it brings [...]

I’m working on what I call a taxonomy of travelers. Obviously I am painting with a very broad brush. Here is a list of the ten most common types I’ve encountered: 1. The Rookie 2. The Braggart 3. The Loner 4. The Old Dude 5. The Tourist 6. The Misfit 7. The Man Whore 8. [...]

There are a wealth of sunrises in the world. Be sure to catch one.

“Where’d you see that,” my father texted me after I sent him this photo. “In the zoo?” In true text-speak I replied: “Zoo! Haha! You’re just jealous.” To which he replied, “yup.” My father, in case you were wondering, is the man who introduced me to birds, among many other things. Our exchange was good [...]

Take a moment and think about what money is. Then take a moment to recognize that there is a constitutional structure behind the medium of exchange we call ‘money.’ It may seem an esoteric question. Trust me, it’s not. We have built the structure of money just as we have built skyscrapers and roads and [...]

The day before yesterday I read a fascinating essay in The New York Review of Books about Franz Liszt. I’ve spoken before of how much I appreciate The New York Review. In my opinion it is the single best, all around, English language periodical, bar none. The essay on Liszt is another in a long [...]

Do you have any dog stories? Leave them in the comments. I’m not a dog person. Sure, we had a black lab–named Isis after a Saturday morning television show for kids–from the time I was six until I was seventeen. What a life that dog did lead. She would hunt and fish with us, chase [...]

I had a rather unhappy late puberty-early adolescence. (There breaths a man?) So yesterday when I received an email promoting a certain prominent psychiatrist who treats addiction, which was tied to the presumptive addiction related death of Whitney Houston I had a hard time resisting the urge to hit reply and write a scathing email. [...]