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...

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....

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...

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 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...

A red shape flashes in the corner of my vision. I turn away from my students, and see a red fox lightly pitter pattering across fresh...

Recently, I started reading a book about spirituality called The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I first discovered this book when I saw a...

On the drive back from the airport in Boston I stare out the window at all the trees zipping by out the window. On long car rides I used...

Gear. Gear. Gear! You have it, or you don't. The word itself is so subjective - It can be valued at $5 or $5,000, depending on where you...

There is a Mott's fruit snack wrapper floating sadly in a bubbling thermal pool. I find myself staring at it longer than the geyser...

As a young adult, I am on the move quite a bit. Everywhere my feet land, I am unsure if I will make this plot of earth my home, or if I...

I love aging. I don't know if I will still be feeling that way when I hit 40, but right now I am in love with it. I love the way my body...

It is easy to live your life following societal norms, but harder to entertain the idea that perhaps our entire ideology is skewed. I can...