Thanks to an intense head cold, I don’t remember too much about yesterday. The whole day felt like I was at a move theater, watching my life up on the big screen, more casual observer than particpant. I think at one point I observed myself running for 17 miles. At another I drifted from one hospital pavilion to another (four times over) in the company [...]
I took a walk late at night last weekend. I intended to escape the killer night lights that are all too prevalent in this part of the world. I walked to the point where the glow faded into faint slivers of paint in an otherwise pitch perfect sky. It is the point where a road drifts to nowhere. I thought I was alone. But tucked [...]
“I was just a kid when I found out how cruel the world could be faded pictures from forgotten times of endless misery. I lit a candle but I could not know why.” -Dillinger Four (from their song “Hand Made Hard Times Handed Back”) A few years back there was a kid I came to know through three second intervals in the school cafeteria. I [...]
I find that a lot of Vegetarian/Vegan restaurants fall into two categories. One is the restaurants that serve mainly vegetable dishes. These may include rich soups, vegetable sandwiches, whole grain breads, pastas and fresh salads. The other is one that models itself after meat restaurants but replaces all the meat with vegetarian/vegan alternatives. Sometimes I dig the first style. Sometimes the second. I really have [...]
May 6-10 marks teacher appreciation week. It is a week to sit back and reflect on your favorite teacher of the past and the lessons they taught you. For teachers, it is a chance to eat a bunch of carbs and candy. It is also a chance to dress like Cyndi Lauper, Magnum P.I or Charlie’s Angels and really freak your class out. So maybe [...]
I’m not much of a soda guy. I drink a can about every six months and usually it is because there is absolutely nothing else to drink wherever I am at (like hanging out with Africans in New Port Richey). My drinks of choices are water and the occasional Gatorade or Aloe Juice. When I was little, my drink of choice was easily milk. At birthday [...]
Sometimes you crave one of those really sugary, super processed, chalky as hell protein bars. Sometimes you want something a little better for you. It is at those moments that I reach into my cupboard and look past the quick oats and protein powder. I have my sights set much further back in the pantry. It is here that I find my container of…quinoa?! Quinoa [...]
I was walking the aisles at my local Asian Grocery store and I came across some nondescript video game. It was selling for slightly more than a shilling, so I figured I’d take it home and see what the game was all about. I loaded it into my computer and was surprised to see an unripe jackfruit appear on the screen. If you aren’t of [...]
Sunday was a day of recovering made necessary by a chance encounter with John Galt. It occurred a few miles north of my apartment. I was running through fields of green littered with playing cards and fast food bags. Just outside of a high school, I saw the man standing there confused. I asked him if he needed help. He smiled at me, a strange [...]
