I’ve read 12 books this year. I don’t subscribe to the speed-reading tactics preached by members of the internets productivity cult, so one book a month is about perfect. I read at whatever pace allows me to comprehend the material and I try not to skip over words I don’t…

A few weeks ago, a large yellow orb appeared in the sky and gave me a terrible fright. After delving into the deepest parts of my memory and figuring out what the warm, floating matter was, I did what anyone who lives under Mother Nature’s faucet should do when the…

Belief without behavior is wind without sails: everyone onboard can feel it, but the ship never moves. I’m exhausted by the phony righteous indignation most online communities are poisoned with. Their power structures are all the same: a virtue-signaling hierarchy where he or she who casts the pithiest reprimand of…

Nineteen point six cents. Let’s round that to 20 cents. There’s a trend, especially among folks my age to look with disdain at frugality. In an attempt, it seems, to buck the idea of being consumed by greed, they spend frivolously as though it’s a virtue. So what does 20…

As I embark on my 30th year I’ve been reflecting on what I picked up during my 20s. Here are 29 things I’ve learned. These are a part of my life script that’s constantly evolving and being edited. Most of them I’m still working on. 1. You care more than they do, so argue a little You spent hours frantically working…

If a self-help guru offered a weekend seminar titled “Reclaiming Your Imagination” their followers would pay thousands of dollars to attend. While that certainly sounds like an exhilarating experience, there’s a much cheaper and accessible option available — reading fiction. Children, unadulterated by the perceived “responsibilities” of adulting, can tap…

Our visit in February meant the red Sequoias in both parks were beautifully contrasted with a layer of snow on the forest floor. These two parks are connected at the hip and their aesthetics are near identical. Although visiting in the winter made for beautiful sights and small crowds, it…

Saguaro is part of the Sonoran Desert in the Southwest United States, the only place in the world one can find towering Saguaro Cactuses. It was a scorching afternoon in late August when we visited last year. …

Remember playing Oregon trail during the one hour of computer time you got in school? Well, if you were born sometime between 95’ and 2000 you probably do. At the end, if you didn’t die of influenza or starvation, you were tasked with traversing down the Snake River (I think…