Last night, at around 10:30, Nick Sam and I were sitting downstairs wondering what to do on a friday night. this is a rough transcript of what happened:
- me: “hey let’s go to Charleston.” Sam- “YEA” Nick-”heh” Alex-”Me too!”
So we tried to get Sam’s beachhouse people on the phone, but their slackerishness didn’t pick up, [...]
That was too epic of a title. Whatever.
I realized last night, that there are some things I’ve done, that I will never do better. For example:
Played the most exciting game of Baseball I will play
I was in 7th grade, playing Varsity Baseball. We were in the third extra inning, one out, runner on third base [...]
Rick Warren, who wrote The Purpose Driven Life said: (paraphrase) “Most people struggle with daily time w/ God because they’ve never developed the habit” and went on to talk about how 40 days is about what it takes to seal a habit.
It occurred to me that I don’t think I’ve ever gone 40 uninterrupted days [...]
I love maps.
Go back and reread that sentence. Maps make me giddy. Zoo, mall, Atlas, doesn’t matter. don’t get me started on Google Earth. It’s not just maps either, but direction too. I really love knowing where we’re going, and every point along the way.
So with that in mind.
I’m 8 or 9. We’re driving in [...]
Driving down the road one afternoon, as a 15 year old kid who knew ALL about driving (with my mother), i was headed to debate class. I was about to turn left off of Hwy 17 (4 lane divided highway) into a neighborhood. There were 5 lights! WHY do you need 5? it just makes [...]
As Natalie would say, I was in a hurry.
I had to get to class, and I was driving on the interstate from one homeschooled location to another (ironically neither being my house). It was raining, and I was comfortably in my Buick listening to music at a cool 60 mph. It’s hard to communicate this [...]
Part 5 of 5 of Stephen Stories, a recap of Me vs. Universe from the past 10 years.
This story is the most physically painful experience of my life. So any one-uppers out there…Don’t even go there.
I was with three of my good friends at a playground on a sunday afternoon in March of 2008. We [...]
One day, after my mom and I had just returned from grocery shopping, she got out of the Acura went upstairs. I was a young, innocent homeschooled 9-year-old kid who didn’t know the dangers of cigarettes or their accompanying car lighters. So I sat there, in the car, alone, staring that lighter down.
Eventually I succumbed to the [...]
Sausage Egg and Cheese English Muffin
Hardboiled Egg
chocolate donut
Oatmeal with brown sugar and Granola
Blueberry Muffin & Butter
Whole Milk
Coffee w/ Cream and Sugar
Orange Juice
When you have to work 12 hours, you eat like you’ll never eat again.
In Guatemala, back in 2006, my friend Will and I were playing frisbee on an abandoned lot. I was insane, and therefore wasn’t wearing shoes. Well the throws got longer and longer until he was just a speck in the distance.
One of his disks launched wide left, and I had to avoid some glass. The [...]
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