“I suppose you are wondering why you are here.” Seven billion souls shuffling their feet, which many at once notice are not exactly feet while somehow failing to not be feet. Even those who did not have feet just moments…
Category: Pre-Trip Posts
On Mars
So there may be rocket fuel on Mars. It’s in our drinking water and now it’s on the Red Planet. What would we be more likely to find as the remains of a past civilization, a past effort, than this…
Where Were You in Chicago?
Oh, Chicago. It’s been eight full years since my last visit to the Windy City (outside of one of the worst airport stopovers in modern history). The city of my almost absolutely ideal weather (could stand to be a little…
Life as an Emotional Ocean
I don’t think I could possibly encapsulate what the last week has looked like in my life, but you can tell it looked like something with the absence of all the posts. It’s like someone going quiet in a room…
Winter World Tour 2007-2008
As I’ve often been known to say, change is the only constant. This has perhaps never felt more true than this week, which is simply over-brimming with upheaval and possibility. Forget ungainly metaphors about baby steps and windows and doors.…
Assorted Thoughts Before Vermont
All right. Turns out that this whole “keeping posts long and narrative” idea works pretty well, but seems wholly unfitting for times like the morning before I depart on a big trip. I have a long-standing personal tradition of firing…