The New Mid-Life Crisis Is: Being Awesome
byIn March of this year, at a Kmart in Petaluma, California, I bought my friend Amy her very first road atlas. She’s 45, and…
In March of this year, at a Kmart in Petaluma, California, I bought my friend Amy her very first road atlas. She’s 45, and…
I rolled down the packed trail, standing in the pedals, watching the 30 or so feet ahead of me illuminated by my headlamp. Hilary…
My dad mentioned to me the other day that this was the first year he’d ever used up his entire five weeks of paid…
In April, a piece titled “Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life” started making its way around Facebook and Twitter. The author raised a point that…
My dad told me the other day he’d won a three-day Harley rental at a raffle. I said Dad, I think you have to…
My friend Forest put this photo on Facebook last December, with this caption: It was a hot day in July. Navigating the lunchtime jumble…
I flew to Iowa to visit my grandmother in the hospital a couple weeks ago. She’s been in and out of hospitals for the…
You call someplace home, and if you think about it, there are probably one or two big reasons for that. Maybe you grew up…
Six summers ago, a guy named Fred sat down across from me at a picnic table near Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, the…
This past Tuesday, a film called “35” went up on Vimeo — it’s 5 minutes and 17 seconds, including a ton of beautiful footage…
A couple weeks ago at a party, I saw Dave Nice for the first time in a long time. We started talking about the…
My friend Aaron is a pretty normal guy, by most standards: High school math teacher, homeowner, happily married, good hygiene, pays his bills, et…
In a scene in the spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the One-Armed Bounty Hunter finds Tuco Ramirez in a vulnerable…