The crew had traveled some 40 light years to reach this distinct set of five planets. The planets were surrounding the sun-like star they had admired since their time as amateur astronomers in their childhood. There was the one planet deemed “super-earth” and four other gas giants, one of which possessed a habitable zone and…

The district of Dalston originally began as a hamlet within the parish of Hackney in the northeast part of London. The origins of its name was unremarkable as it developed on either side of Dalston Lane. While I was standing approximately 4,624 miles away from Dalston in New Orleans, Louisiana, I couldn’t help but think…

A harrowing sound lacerates the air and makes for a near cataclysmic cacophony with each thunderous wave that pulverizes the rocks in Noord on the temperate island of Aruba. Day or night the playlist seems to be on continuous shuffle but repeating the all-too familiar rhythm of the sea. The green from the near perfectly…

The blare of the commuter train horn on its Saturday schedule precisely every one hour and forty nine minutes was the only major event in our quiescent little hamlet that humdrum morning. Beyond the typical procrastinating of household chores on my day off I was left alone and prosaic while the rest of my family…