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

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....

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

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...

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

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

I park my car next to a small snowbank of fresh snow, and see large footprints that head into the forest that start at my car. They...

When I was in elementary school, I had a box containing around 300 gift cards. None of these gift cards ever had any money on them. I...

Twinkling lights wherever you go, holiday desserts, family gathering, gift giving, time off from work - How could one not be happy around...

I take deep breaths, half because of physical exertion, and half because the air is dense with the musky-sweet smell of fallen leaves. So...

It can be easy to be healthy while living in an affluent urban area where you are a stone's throw away from a juice bar and an equinox...

Slipping out of the hotel room and into the quiet dark streets of rural Slovenia, I feel as though my heart might be set ablaze. The cool...

Never had I been forced to consider the worth of my life before my last solo-hike. I am hiking a trail called Upper Layout, a modest hike...

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...

You're driving down the freeway when some ambiguous person in a purple Dodge Challenger comes out of nowhere and aggressively swerves in...

There is a good chance that either you or someone you know has been in an emotionally abusive relationship. The National Domestic...

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...

Words only have power and meaning if we give them the means. Logs won't burn without a means to spark a flame, and a piano will not...