A Very Short Recap

My last post was April 22nd of this year. I’m sorry world. I don’t want to lie by saying I was busy or I was seeing someone else but a lot has changed. I can’t really remember what my life was necessarily like in April. I could tell you about the time one of the [...]

Some Insight

I fucking did it. I said it since I was fifteen, maybe even before that, “I’m moving to California.” And I fucking did it. I spent all that time, four-plus years, telling myself, reassuring myself, that I was going to live in California. I had a dream, a life goal that, whether I like it [...]

On The Other Side of the Stream

After a six hour, two-flight trip from San Francisco, CA to La Crosse, WI (via Minneapolis, MN), I am now under a familiar roof in my hometown of Trempealeau, WI. I was reluctant to agree when first asked to return so soon since my departure mid-August. But now I am here. Very little has changed in [...]

No More Cold Lunch

Sack Lunch jammed for the last time today. We jammed over an hour and touched base on all our favorite SL tunes: Awesome-sauce, The Masterpiece, Summertime Rag, The New One, The Reggae Jam among others. We also explored a bit toward the end figuring out some pretty cool jazzy changes. Sack Lunch developed out of [...]

The Clichè Kid

I turned 18 an hour and forty minutes ago, officially. It would be clichè to say that this is a milestone in my life, just as it would be clichè to say how I feel, because I think we all feel this way when crossing a “milestone” in our lives, so I will save you [...]

The Final Stretch

My summer has hit a plateau of excitement, 10K probably being its most recent climax. I had one of the greatest times of my life. I spent it with people I love and we all had a great time. Now that I’m home, I’ve fallen back in place with my circle of friends, our sources [...]

10,000 Lakes Festival; Pt. 2

I am making the transition back into the “real world” once again. It is part culture shock/part familiar but all the same, I’m back to where I was. For the past week I was lost in a world where anything is acceptable (except playing metal bands on the stereo). At 10K, I expounded on ideas about time, [...]

What a trip!

I returned to my neck of the woods last night around 12a, having spent a full fifteen hours in Gregg’s Honda Element. I will try to recollect my adventure to Tennessee and back but please note, my memory is somewhat sketchy from this week. So much happened!

WEDNESDAY
Lauren, Jamie, Amanda and I left Madison around 9a [...]

Thanks, But No Thanks

I was hoping for a great realization about how I feel in regards to graduating. It did not come. Instead, graduation seems like a petty insignificance to the whole. Do not get me wrong. I enjoyed my grad party and the graduation ceremony immensely but graduation, per se, does little to make me feel like [...]

Stowaway on the Train of Thought

Even after walking ceremoniously down the hall, passing well-known friends who shake your hand and give you a pat on the back and say “Good luck, man”, the fact that I am done with high school has not quite yet registered in my head. Four days until graduation feels like six weeks left of school. [...]