🏃 Race day warm fuzzies
I'm currently sitting on the Amtrak Cascades train riding south from Vancouver, BC to Seattle. The views have been stunning!! We did the reverse route from Seattle to Vancouver a few days back at…
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✈️ My (sometimes unpopular) travel opinions
I've got travel on the mind lately. Isn't it so crazy that we can literally FLY through the air and get anywhere in the world within a day or so? Us humans are pretty good at getting used to things…
🏙️ NYC gratitude post
I've lived in Brooklyn for 7 months now - time flies! I'm currently sitting on my couch reflecting on my move to New York, and how I'm feeling about everything now that I'm mostly settled. Here's a…
🤝 I want to be more like Andre
Earlier this week, I went to my first Lectures on Tap event. It was great! I'm one of those weirdos who loved school, so it was right up my alley. Something about listening to a passionate speaker…
🥴 Instagram is obsessed with me
If you know me, you know I have some negative feelings about the enshittification of social media. Specifically, the soulless, science-based addiction-maxxing patterns designed to keep users hooked…
☕️ How many people does it take to make a cup of coffee?
I saw a claim online somewhere a few weeks ago that I can't get out of my head. The claim was something like "it takes ~150 people to get a single cup of coffee to you". For this post I don't…
🗽 Statue of Litter-bee
First of all, if you've never seen this "It's the Statue of Litter-bee" video, it's been stuck in my head for about 5 years and it's all I can think about any time the Statue of Liberty comes…
✍️ Why I write
The title of this post is a rip-off from an essay written by George Orwell, published in 1946. If you only have time to read one thing today, you should absolutely read that piece over mine. I can't…
👥 Interactions with strangers
Since moving to Brooklyn, I've been spending a lot more time outside walking around. Which makes perfect sense - we sold our cars, and we take Kodak on several walks per day now that he doesn't have…
😌 I solved anxiety
I've always been an anxious overthinker. But not over the past few weeks! I'm cured! All it took was finally thinking my way out of it 😉 Anxiety isn't real This is a bold claim, so bear with me here…
😎 Site and life updates
New year new site I did a big site refresh! I was feeling uninspired by my previous site and needed to simplify. I found myself writing drafts of posts, but never getting them across the finish line…
🙃 The Ex-Mormon Dilemma
This is a tricky blog post to write. I spent most of my life as an extremely devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, aka Mormon. I want to make it clear up front that even…
🎉 32-year-old thoughts
Friends swimming in Lake Norman, shot on my KODAK Ektar H35N Today is my 32nd birthday! A lot of people complain about getting older, but this year I feel great. Every year I get more comfortable in…
🧠 My thoughts on mental health
Oh no I accidentally went over a year without writing a blog post hahaha oops. Let's talk about mental health. I can't speak for everyone, but here are some thoughts / observations I've been mulling…
😩 There's too much to do...
Oops. It's May and my last blog post was in January. One of my resolutions for the year was to publish a blog post every month... failed that one pretty quick 😅 I don't know about you, but I feel…
😤 Life lessons from diving
My diving career I tried different sports growing up (tee-ball, basketball, soccer, even cheerleading), but none of them really clicked. Then in 5th grade, all of us students got sent home with…
📝 My thoughts on blogging
A new blog? Is it the early 2000s again? Call me crazy, but I think blogging, or longer-form written content in general, is underrated these days. In a world filled with instant gratification and…