CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Dobro Blagodaram!

    Please forgive my recent, unannounced hiatus from the blog. One of my best friends, Eftim, got married last weekend in Croatia, and he invited around a dozen of his friends from Louisiana to the celebration. Eftim is like family to me; my brother was his best man, so there was no way I could have possibly missed the ceremony and the celebration. We’d been planning the trip for nearly a year, and not to brag or anything, but it was the most incredible wedding I’ve ever been to in my entire life: a veritable global summit with representatives from the…

  • Stay Tuned

    Just taking a short break. Currently, I’m driving through Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Literally, as this awful, hastily -taken cell phone photo demonstrates). Stay tuned.

  • “We Got Him”

    1. On the morning of September 11, 2001, when the first plane struck the World Trade Center, I was asleep in my college dorm room. My friend Daniel called from across campus to wake me up. “Turn on the TV,” he said. “A plane just hit the World Trade Center.” I lumbered into the dorm’s living room and turned on the television. My roommates were still asleep. In those first few moments, I thought that it was surely an accident. “Decades ago, a plane hit the Empire State Building,” I remember saying. Then, the second plane hit. Clearly, it was…