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Five hundred miles
Last night I reached an important milestone in my quest to outrun my own stupid shit and generate some positive personal electricity. I have, as of now, stepped approximately 554.54 miles. I’m on my second pair of shoes. I have overcome foot injuries, glute issues and the dreaded Hill Fear Syndrome. Yay. Me. In doing […]
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Night crawler
I often fall into bad cycles of insomnia – a sort of weird situation where my brain just won’t shut down even though my body craves rest. I wind up sitting around, reading news stories and Facebook posts, playing word games and generally wasting time. Just kind of staring into space, sucking in useless information […]
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Thunder and Lightning
I have managed, over the past four years, to accept it. To embrace the stifling, sticky summers of Northern Virginia and thrive in the oppressive heat that normally hits this region in July and August. That’s saying something, too, because I grew up in the pleasant weather pattern of Southern California, with its gently blowing […]
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Electronica
Talking to a million people is the loneliest thing. They sit you in a chair on an island, connected to the world by a rubber earpiece and a microphone. You sit there, for a long time, for forever, staring into a black hole and pretending that you’re good, you’re fine, that you’re ready to tell […]