I’ve been back in America for almost a year now and have repeatedly settled into and broken out of a few semi-regular jobs—which have constrained time for adventures a bit—and just made me feel stuck and anxious about life in…
Saturday morning and it’s like a real weekend again because I’m not working the jobs where I’m currently underemployed (but thankful to have). Like being a kid again except instead of Saturday morning cartoons I read the news and ate low-fat Greek yogurt with oatmeal and honey mixed in. No one is at the house. My father is in South America skiing. My mom went to go visit family. Since nobody is home to disrupt…
While walking along the beach this morning I found a little starfish. Having never seen a starfish before I approached it cautiously, let it know I was an unarmed pacifist discontent with my life, just wandering the earth seeking new…
For the past few months I’ve had difficulty sleeping through an entire night. Most nights I wake up from nightmares revolving around a few different themes, predominantly suicide, a sense of loss and hopelessness. This may be hard for you to understand as generally my writing is incredibly cheery and heartwarming. A few months ago one of my friends committed suicide. We weren’t that that close but it was one of those cases where you…
Imagine you stayed in a medium-priced hotel, somewhere financially-conservative people between 40-70 stay. The grandmas do their hair before leaving their room. It’s almost 09:00 and you decide to go downstairs and see just how shitty the free breakfast is.…
I now realize that the vitamin I just took was intended to be dissolved in liquid prior to consumption. I was wondering why 1) it tasted so awful when vitamins are generally innocuous; 2) my mouth started foaming as I…
