Whenever I’ve told people what I studied in college, I hear the exact same question: “What are you going to do with an English degree?”

Tones range from simple incredulity and curiosity to thinly-veiled contempt, which is…

“The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.”—Eddie Vedder

Let’s have an uneducated chat about music, shall we? I was cleaning out my car…

I had a piece much longer than this in its original draft. But it became far too pseudo-intellectual about a phenomenon that’s really very simple to explain and/or understand. Writing is a scary process because it allows us to literally see our own thoughts. I think it’s scarier still to allow another…

I climbed outside for the first time approximately a year ago. I’ve been rock climbing indoors for close to two years by now, and to my chagrin, I have only gotten to climb on real rock one time, as part of a class. We went to Oregon’s Smith Rock, a hotspot for climbers in the area, and it was on this excursion…