Following through on a beautiful swing

I can’t remember the first time I swung a golf club, but I must have been about eight years old. I also don’t remember it feeling awkward or being a difficult motion to grasp. In fact, what compelled my parents and grandparents to encourage me to pursue the sport was that I had (and presumably, [...]

Badges

I recently determined that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who have experienced a painful breakup and those who have not. I’m not one for absolutes and I rarely advocate this type of black and white thinking, especially when it relates to the subjectivity of emotion, but in the case of [...]

My 26th year

The NYC Marathon seems to have set the pace for the rest of my November. My blog began to hit its stride. My first piece of published writing ran in a national magazine. And today I turn 26. (Those 0.2 miles don’t count for much anyway). 
I spent my 26th birthday alone in NYC. While it [...]

Big Sky to Big Apple

Sometimes it seems like the world is winking at you. I’ll explain.
Three years ago I moved from Seattle to Bozeman, Montana. The landscape was surreal; it’s not hard to understand why they call it Big Sky Country. Bozeman is in a high valley surrounded by five mountain ranges, one of which (the Gallatin Range) [...]

The true meaning of Halloween

This is a post from a blog I created last year, but I feel it’s timely and worth re-posting. 
People say that one of the great things about Halloween is that, unlike other holidays, there is no deeper meaning to be honored. If Halloween were a friend of yours, it would be the friend who is immature, playful [...]