Confidence is like a mountain. Standing at the bottom, the apex looks a mile away. When you’re down, the higher up you have to look, the more unreachable it seems. Some like the challenge; they feed off it. Others, it’s just as easy to say the hell with it; why bother, misery loves company and [...]
Growing up, I never thought about college much. It wasn’t even so much a hypothetical as it was a non-issue. In high school, amongst my closest friends, college was a word the same way onomatopoeia was a word; if you used it you were probably using it wrong. There were plenty of other words we [...]
If you want to get technical, the 2000’s for me started in downtown Buffalo, NY. I was in pleather pants and a long-sleeve purple velvet shirt, smack dab in the middle of 18,000 people at a Barenaked Ladies concert. I was neither drunk nor high, despite what my choice of apparel might imply. I was [...]
When I was a kid I remember peeling decorative doors off the Christmas calendar. Each peel meant I was one day closer to opening presents. The anticipation was paramount; the end result could have been anything. My imagination wasn’t spoiled by reality back then; the sky might have been the limit, but everything between the [...]
