Three years ago, I sat on the back of my car, parked off Route 66 in a two-stoplight town called Holbrook, Arizona. The breeze was just enough to warrant a hoodie but air conditioners hummed outside of the cement teepees that surrounded me. The stars were out in full bloom and tinted by the neon green sign that screamed "WIGWAM MOTEL". It was a special kind of calm and bliss I still dream about.
Read MoreTake Out the Trash
When your kitchen is your bedroom, you need to take out the trash. When your space is limited, you need to take out the trash. And when you want to move forward and be a better person, you need to take out the trash out. Often.
You have zero time to mess around with trash. Do not compromise; just find out what's important and build backwards.
Close the Weekend Void
The weekend is not for nothing.
You're happy it's Friday, you're ready to get down. But you have zero plans. You know there are options. You're hoping your friends will mix with booze and the world will become your oyster. And it is! But what to do, what to do?
Read MoreThe Sexy Nihilist Fantasy
The ultimate badass attitude is that of a nihilist. You don’t care what is to happen because nothing has meaning and it all will end. We are but a mistake.
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Carpe Diem For All of Us
My father cried when baseball great Micky Mantle died. He never denied it, he just told me that's what happened. Mickey Mantle made my father's childhood (and really, adulthood) slugging home-runs for the Yankees, and when he passed on, my father felt a part of him leave too.
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Wrestling With Your Beliefs
It's been a year since I've suited up for jiu-jitsu.
I'm sure deep in the folds of my brain there is still some muscle memory left to perform an armbar with precision, but a year is a long time to be away from the mats.
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