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"I write to discover what I know."
– Flannery O'Connor


Blitzed Baby! Psychedelic Marines, Subterranean Dreams & the Heroin Epidemic
A personal reflection on heroin's allure, its devastation in Vermont, and the haunting contrast between youthful idealism and lived reality—woven through cultural memory, historical drug use in WWII, and a playful what-if imagining of soldiers on LSD instead of meth.

Lavavoth
Aug 4, 20175 min read


Abandoned Berlin: An Apocalyptic Dream
A surreal dream/nightmare account about a post-apocalyptic Berlin.

Lavavoth
Jul 19, 20171 min read


Ewiger Wald: The Roots of Ecofascism and My Love for the Real Eternal (Black) Forest
An exploration of Germany’s deforestation, forest history, and environmental contrasts with Vermont.

Lavavoth
Jul 12, 20174 min read


Neurodivergence: Battling Dyslexia
Typing is akin to using an Enigma machine, especially if I over analyze the keyboard...

Lavavoth
Jul 11, 20173 min read


Latest Photo Acquisitions: GIs, Bombed-Out German Cities & Panzers
After being haunted by the Brandstätten images in December, I decided to purchase original photographs of WWII bombed out German cities.

Lavavoth
Jun 7, 20173 min read


Dear Ryan…
You passed away on June 2, 2016, in your house. You left behind a partner, a two-year-old daughter, a sister, a brother, and your parents.

Lavavoth
Apr 2, 20173 min read


Nazisploitation: Avoiding “The Night Porter” Trap (and Website Updates)
Although Blind Love is an edgy and provocative illustrated novel full of “Nazi heartthrobs,” it is actually about the resistance movement.

Lavavoth
Mar 27, 20173 min read


Occupied Flesh: 1940 - 1945 The Erotic Years as a Mirror to My Spirit Union
The Erotic Years, 1940 – 1945 is a controversial picture book depicting trysts between Nazi soldiers and French women in occupied France.

Lavavoth
Feb 24, 20172 min read


Was ist los in der Welt?
She wondered out loud in German, ruminating on the president elect's asseverations that are as inauthentic and ridiculous as his toupee.

Lavavoth
Jan 20, 20171 min read


Apocalyptic Reverie: Doing the Mushroom Shuffle in Berlin
So there I went, into self-induced anxiety, combing the internet for those kinds of websites that are riddled with doomsday predictions and conspiracy theories.

Lavavoth
Jan 13, 20174 min read


Haunted Berlin, Part 2: The Berlin Wall
In Berlin, Germany, a visit to the Berlin Wall becomes an encounter with World War II soldiers moving through the field, appearing without warning.

Lavavoth
Dec 26, 20163 min read


Sieg Heil Herr Drumpf and The New Nuclear Arms Race (Political Cartoons)
A picture is worth a thousand words.

Lavavoth
Dec 24, 20161 min read


Haunted Berlin, Part 1: The Flak Tower
In Berlin, Germany, the flak tower becomes a point of entry into a city where the past presses in and something unseen begins to surface.

Lavavoth
Dec 22, 20164 min read


Brandstätten: The Firebombing of Germany
Exploring the devastation of German air raids, and how the complexity of history’s shadows linger in a past life memory.

Lavavoth
Dec 18, 20165 min read


“Great Fun!”: Nazi Germany Photographs and the Unbearable Persistence of Fascism
Connecting with the ghosts of Nazi Germany via photographs to understand fascism then and now.

Lavavoth
Dec 16, 20167 min read


Antique Photo Collection: Searching for Hans’s Face in the Portraits of Others
Collecting antique photographs was a spiritual and aesthetic quest to get as close to Hans's doppelgänger as possible.

Lavavoth
Dec 15, 20165 min read


Sonke Neitzel: Mindset of WWII German Soldiers
A video interview with historian Sönke Neitzel discussing his book Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying, which examines secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war during World War II.

Lavavoth
Nov 19, 20161 min read
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