When you’re a kid time has a way of passing with the speed and urgency of an elderly turtle with four broken legs on his way to visit his proctologist. Important events—Christmas, your birthday, the end of the school day—always seem forever fleeting, forever away. In fact, “This is taking forever” seems to be right [...]
Sometimes there is no good explanation for what happens in life, the ways and whys of things, how paths sometimes lead you to unclaimed $20 bills, how in certain rooms at certain times you fall in love with someone you wouldn’t otherwise give a second-look to. The same thing goes for music; it’s just as [...]
I’ll never be confused for a prophet; if I could tell the future there wouldn’t have been any heartache, any bad decisions, I wouldn’t have invested in Beanie Babies. But on more than one occasion in my life I’ve had these overwhelming feelings—a sixth sense, intuition, or whatever you call it—where I knew what was [...]
The writing bug first bit me in 11th grade. I was taking a Journalism class, and for our final exam my teacher gave me two options: interview the gym teacher about the track-and-field team, or write a short story. I had no idea what went into writing a short story, but interviewing the gym teacher [...]
I survived my first year at college. It wasn’t without scars; after deciding to return, despite the debacle at the end of my first semester, not too far into the second one I fooled around and fell into credit card debt. I got blinded by a smile. It was a damn good smile, easy on [...]
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 [...]
