My friend Chris had a perfectly good, secure, well-paying job as a chemist up until a few weeks ago, when…
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Because we all need a little motivation sometimes. All posters created with Despair.com’s DIY Build Your Own Motivator tool. …
Hopefully you’re enjoying some time off right now due to one of our many end-of-year holidays, spending time with people…
Sometimes, when you’re in a beautiful place, it’s easy to forget to take a #selfie. Later, when you look through…
-Brendan
When you’re buying a rain jacket, you probably have lots of questions, none of which really matter besides “Which rain…
The Sunday night before my first day of fourth grade, I rolled my black-and-gold Huffy Thunder 50 BMX bike up…
Do you have a hard time eating at fancy restaurants where food is presented as a sort of sculpture? I…
In November, a video posted online showed an American climber visiting Sweden blowtorching holds on some boulders to dry them…
Fact: Shirts are for suckers. They’re heavy, hot, and if you wear one when you’re rock climbing, the ladies (or…
My friend Aaron is a pretty normal guy, by most standards: High school math teacher, homeowner, happily married, good hygiene,…
“I’ve been thinking about things on a cost-per-use basis lately,” my friend Nick said to me a few weeks ago.…
At a grocery store last week, the cover of Cosmopolitan‘s January issue caught my eye with the headline “EPIC SEX.”…
In a scene in the spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the One-Armed Bounty Hunter finds Tuco…
My dad and I walked into Busch Stadium in St. Louis on September 4, the first time he had been…
“Send me a list of gift ideas for you.” Why do we do this around the holidays now? I mean,…
When you dismount a mountain bike going uphill, you end up doing a sort of bow. As you step off…
A few years ago, I climbed Drift Peak near Leadville, Colorado, on Presidents Day with my friend Aaron and my…
My friend Mick’s heart stopped working last Sunday. He died at the age of 54, not knowing that the night…
I haven’t had a “proper” Thanksgiving dinner since 2002, somehow managing to be anywhere but watching football and eating an…