My hand swells up to twice its size, oozing clear liquid, and i've never felt better. About four days prior, I was traversing the notable...

Kauai, the oldest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, is known as the “Garden Isle.” Its lush tropical rainforests and mystical mountains...

I returned from Hawaii a couple months ago and sat down to write about it. I didn't get very far, and left the words to marinate in an...

The word "superfood" is a bit wonky if you ask me. A superfood is defined as, "a nutrient-rich food considered to be especially...

When I arrived in Wyoming, I fancied vibrant yellows and then deep rusty oranges - the colors of aspen leaves in the fall. For the first...

Nostalgia creeps in like the cold of winter. Slow at first, then one day the icy wall shows up with full force, impossible to ignore....

A mother and daughter sit at a countertop in a bar facing out to the quiet street. They are drinking oat milk hot chocolates. It's 9pm in...

Another man died in the mountains. I say another because that fate is not uncommon in mountain towns. I say man because fatality among...

Agnes Bourne was three years old when she designed her very first home. I haven’t seen this design, but through Bourne’s vivid...

Many people want confidence. Many people wonder why they don’t have it. There are things that I am very confident in, such as leading...

There are a lot of things that are scary about life. Everyone has their own personal anxieties, and oftentimes avoidance is how many...

I have been seduced by the phenology of quaking aspens. In the winter, they stand softly, white bark against white snow. Their eyes,...

Peyton is in 8th grade. Blonde, formidable beauty in her future, remarkably rebellious, sharp as a nail, and tragically wrapped up inside...

In college one of my friend groups used to play board games nearly every night we got together. Not chess, or monopoly, but more abstract...

"Do you have clothes?" Jennifer, the woman who just hired me asks. I am momentarily confused. Jennifer has on a sleek sleeveless white...

I think that the traffic is because of a bison, but as I round the corner I see a woman laying in the street with a pool of blood around...

I am walking through the forest with some 6th graders when one exclaims, Wait, these spruce don't look anything like the ones on...

I walk back from an evening program with a school group, and four kids are crying. That's how I know it's been a good night. I take them...

Approximately 5 minutes after leaving the hotel in Costa Rica, I fall into a gutter... hard. Costa Rica's streets are lined with gutters...

Imagine something traumatic has happened to you. Maybe it actually has. We may have a support system - Parents, friends, teachers,...