Hey friends! What a crazy week we had! My family and I decided to start off our vacation by visiting family back in Kenosha, Wisconsin. That's right, THE Kenosha, Wisconsin. We arrived a day after riots, fires, and looting had started. Places that I had walked past my...
It’s Time to Tear Up the Script
"Packers are way better than Vikings!" I said to the other boys in the huddle. It was a cold November morning, and we were waiting for the bell to ring to go inside. I was a junior higher who spent most of his time playing outside, reading comics, or watching reruns...
The News is Not Making You a Better Person
When I was young, I would spend my summers with my grandfather on his farm. Every night, we had a ritual of watching the ten o’clock news (followed by Quincy with Jack Klugman). As I got older, I learned to appreciate the news. It was delivered by well-dressed men and...
5 Awesome Things I Learned From Stan Lee
Stan Lee died today. It's strange feeling a sense of loss over someone you've never met personally but I can't think of a time in my life that I didn't know about him. As an avid Marvel Comics reader throughout my childhood, teen, and young adult years, I remember...
The 5 Scariest Things About Burnout
I vividly remember sitting in the psychologist's office as he told me I was experiencing burnout in a bad way. I had been suffering for a while but I didn't know that there was a clinical term for what I was going through. I just thought I was broken somehow and hoped...
