Take Me Home Tonight
Home has always occupied a central place in humanity’s collective imagination. It’s our castle. It’s where the heart is, according to untold millions of tacky wall hangings in homes across suburban...
View ArticleThe Eternal Return and Awkward Conversations
For long stretches of our lives, we grow up hearing “You’ll understand when you’re older.” Usually that response is in reference to some punishment we’re receiving, or something that our parents won’t...
View ArticleThe Solipsism of Being a Wallflower
I always really liked Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” It was the one coming of age book, the one Bildungsroman, that really resonated with me. Ironically, Catcher in the Rye...
View ArticleNever Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story
It’s what every writer wants to do. Tell a story so well, with such ease and grace, that it becomes real. It doesn’t have to be fiction either. Even non-fiction writers are telling a story. We’re...
View ArticleThe Ritual of Friendship
Do you have any of those things that annoy you disproportionately? There’s no reason for this little, inconsequential thing to cause you so much consternation. For my mom, it’s when I refuse to use...
View ArticleLies My Country Told Me: The Hollow American Dream
Two cars parked in the driveway of a house that looks just like every other house in the neighborhood. Row upon row of the same cookie cutter home, the same cookie cutter dog, the same cookie cutter...
View ArticleBeer Halls, 5 Story Clubs, and Existential Crisis: My Time in Europe So Far
So to start, I’ll apologize to anyone who cares about not updating this blog in so long. If you didn’t know, I moved to Germany on September 1st, and I’ve been in Europe ever since. I’m here on a...
View ArticleWhat’s Worth Teaching?
I’ve previously mouthed my dislike of many things Continental on this blog, but I have to say, Germany has begun to grow on me. Kind of like a fungus I guess. It may be the three hour work day, or the...
View ArticlePressed for Words
Freshly Pressed. Are you ready kid? Can you handle the spotlight, the big time? Or will you crack under the pressure of being on the front page? I recently had the good fortune to be featured on...
View ArticleNobody Likes You When You’re Twenty Three
; I must have been nine or ten when I first heard the Blink-182 song, What’s My Age Again and because I was so young, a lot of its humor was lost on me. Blink was always that band that never wanted to...
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