A Moment of Honesty About My Inner Thoughts

A white background with me looking in the distance and a mountain scene overlapping. Part of my innermost thoughts

Recently I’ve been struggling. Life has been pretty chaotic. Hell, it seems like the whole world is in chaos currently. I can’t seem to find the motivation to do the things I want to do. In fact, sometimes it feels like I can barely breathe. I’m constantly struggling with “Imposter Syndrome”. A struggle that a […]

Dinner in the Dark: The Experience of Being Blind

This past Saturday (Oct. 2nd) my wife, Lisa, took me to Vienna to go to the museum “Dialog im Dunkeln” for my birthday. She went all out, vying for the full dinner in the dark. She wanted us to have the full experience of being blind and did we ever! It was an incredible experience […]

Sometimes All You Need is a Push

Jenson wearing a black coat, his hair all done up as he looks off to the left with a hand on the railing. The background is an overview of the city of Graz set upon a backdrop of the sunset peaking through the clouds.

Life gets busy. We all get in our little ruts. Stuck in the monotony that is everyday life with no foreseeable way out. We play these little tapes in our heads that keep us from doing the things we want to do. “I don’t have the time”, “I’m too weak”, I can’t do that”, “What […]

The Nomadic Inscriptions Tattoo Studio Rating System

I have spent a lot of time in and around tattoo studios. From the dingy office room in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to the comfy little shop in Split, Croatia.  From the sketchy shop closed for Hep C infections in Edmonton, Alberta to the beautiful brickwork apartment in Beijing, China. I have had a lot of experience […]

Why I Would Never (Again) Choose to Live in Austria

A statue made of marble or stone and a gold like metal. Behind it is a traditional Austrian building and a blue sky. A man wearing a tan coat is walking in front of the statue. This is not one of the reasons I would never choose to live in Austria

Even as I sit here at a coffee shop on the beach in Croatia I find this extremely difficult to write. I don’t want to offend, but I fear that no matter how I write this I will offend someone. Hell, even the title will probably offend more than one. If I’m being honest with […]