Personal blog posts about my life of travel, video game development, and creative writing.
A place to share the stories of my life.
In the corner of my room, tucked away inside my closet, is a plastic garbage bag full of old notebooks, held under pots and pans, a guitar case, and Tupperware containers so we can’t get to each other. The three pillars in my life are Vocation, Travel, and Stories, probably because each are hard to […]
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So, it’s been a month. . . . Missed you! xo A lot has happened since getting back from my summer of teaching in Italy. I’ve enrolled in three colleges, dropped out of one of them, and snagged a swanky job at Starbucks (I know, I know). Things have been good. I’ve been reading more,
Before You Read:This is a strange one, but it’s not at all serious! In Dedication to Anyone on a Diet.I wish you luck. Take it easy! I’m not an angry person. Today, I punched a bowl of oatmeal. Let me explain. Having worked in many kitchens, I’ve seen people throw tantrums over spilled milk: the
So Today, Not my day—even a little bit. Cars revved past a little cubby by the roadside where I sat dormant in the driver seat of my Subaru—a crystal contrast to the moving things outside. The gas gauge lay limp on E, and the little orange pilot light faded. All that remained was the deafened
I work on the mountain. Way way up there is a huge resort where I’ve cooked food all winter; some days it’s been busy and some have been slow, like crazy slow, and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s spring! That means so many beautiful things, and one of them is that my seasonal job
Oh, what to say here? Who am I? What are my goals? What’s my birth sign? (kidding about the birth sign) (cancer) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle Before we get this going, I’d like to express my greatest fear in doing this along with