I’m going to talk about Peter again (briefly) because he makes me think about myself, and because he is one of the most interesting people in my life at the moment, though I’m completely aware of what he’s doing. If I ask him a question, he asks me why did you ask that, what would you [...]

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Caulfield’s Conundrum: It’s one of life’s unanswered questions, the ponderance of which is heavy enough to crush boulders, fracture bones. At what point, during the trek towards adulthood, do we decide to give up, incinerating all we’ve learned in the process? I fear that I, like many others, will eventually trade in teenage innocence and immaturity for [...]

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Ridiculous Rambling, or a Stream of Consciousness Post: I’m going to write this without going back and fixing anything. I am going to write this without making any corrections or edits. I think that I don’t do enough thinking just for thinking’s sake, and that’s why it takes me such a long time to do anything correctly. [...]

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Beyond the silence of the suburbs, encapsulating the ease of a breath, the quietude of a whisper, you lie awake, pressing “symmetrical static uniformity” (the recipe for nothingness) to a bare chest.  On a surreal night, I am crushed by this gentle force, exhibited by a musician whose hands hover apprehensively above keys, right before [...]

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I’ve been trying to do this for hours. Four typed pages.
“1. Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).
2. Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?
3. Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your [...]

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