I spent 37 hours at the Houston airport and affiliated Marriott hotel in December 2014. While I tend to be one who gets out of the airport as soon as possible, this time I was stuck because of a series[…]
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2014
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Dec
2
Dec
Dan sat in the front window of a coffee house, sipping an herbal tea. It was 8pm, and the shop was preparing to close; the last barista sweeping the day’s traffic into small piles of dirt and leaves. Snow gathered[…]
20
Nov
We haven’t spoken in a week. Not because we aren’t sad. Not because we haven’t wanted to. But because there’s nothing to say. Everything that needed to be said was covered in two words: “It’s over.” Those words hovered in space[…]
12
Nov
It wasn’t that I was mad at my mom and projecting it on you. It was that I was mad at you, then I was mad at my mom. And then I went back to being mad at you. Remember[…]
21
Aug
I’m a journalist by trade, and maybe by nature. In the 6th grade I was the executive producer of our live broadcast Daily Morning Show, where students updated the school on events, lunch menus, and led the Pledge of Allegiance. It was[…]
29
Jul
Ali stayed up late, tears dried on her cheeks, sitting cross-legged in her underwear on her bed. The room was dark except from the glow of her empty computer screen, slowly filling with words that meant something. Words the held[…]
29
Jul
For six months I climbed easy shit. Nine of my fingers cursed me with disappointment, and shed their layers of hard built callus in resentment. But that other one finger, finally healed. After months of rest. Hours of deep tissue[…]
29
Apr
I never thought that I’d go to the high school prom four times, especially when I’d already gone three times by the time I was 18. But I just went to prom again. Age: 26. Okay, it didn’t really happen[…]
10
Mar
I don’t watch video that frequently. But this one had to be shared. Collectively, however, majesticpapers.com/ the district’s students have steadily improved their scores on the state test over the past few years
5
Mar
This will be my ongoing log for my climbing workouts. They started on March 05, 2014 at 6:30am with Bijan, Larkin and Ben at Movement Climbing + Fitness. April 8 Technically this is week 6. Performance week. I suppose I[…]
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