Following the success of a world-renowned ultra-running career and a best-selling book, Eat & Run, Scott Jurek looked like he had finally slowed down. Transitioning from a career… Read more “North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail: Review”
Jack White: Boarding House Reach
Ingenuitive, experimental, accessible: Jack White has built a wildly-successful career off of innovation. By straying from his contemporaries, shunning the public eye and creating a mythos bound… Read more “Jack White: Boarding House Reach”
‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin and the Age of Trump
While it has been over a year since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, we just so happened to pass another… Read more “‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin and the Age of Trump”
The Modern-Day Witch Hunt on Drug Dealers
President Trump recently visited Manchester, New Hampshire, and released his initiative to combat the national opioid epidemic. While his speech was its usual combative affair, stating, “We’re… Read more “The Modern-Day Witch Hunt on Drug Dealers”
Brief Words on the Guitar
Music is when a person is asked to describe emotions. The guitar is the vessel for which any person, musician or not, is allowed to express themselves:… Read more “Brief Words on the Guitar”
Overhead and Underfoot
Head down—glassy-eyed stare tethered over faltering steps. Here I find myself stumbling over damp, broken earth: stones of granite, foothold roots, and puddled, murky water. It’s a… Read more “Overhead and Underfoot”
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
When the average person thinks of the artist, they think of an enlightened, solitary thinker that is creating art at the will of something greater than themselves.… Read more “The Writing Life by Annie Dillard”
2018 Super Bowl Commercials and Faux “Wokeness”
Super Bowl LII took place last night and the fanfare ended with the Philadelphia Eagles walking away with their first ever Lombardi trophy. The game had its… Read more “2018 Super Bowl Commercials and Faux “Wokeness””
George Saunders’s Tenth of December
In William Faulkner’s 1950 speech “Address upon Receiving the Novel Prize for Literature,” he warned attendees that the Great Fear of his time (nuclear holocaust) was a… Read more “George Saunders’s Tenth of December”
Brief Words on Writing
Writing is performative. Whether performed by the author or the audience, the medium of writing is, fundamentally, the textual embodiment of Voice. The written voice is the… Read more “Brief Words on Writing”
