Holly here loves to run. There is no other feeling like it to her. The beautiful outdoors of Boulder, Colorado keeps her calm and sane. It’s Holly’s therapy. It’s the simple things that matter in life, and the simple things are what makes her smile unconditionally. Nature is three things in her eyes.  1. What […]

Poverty breeds desperation. I’ve never been poor. Sure, money has been tight, and there have been times where I’ve had to, shall we say, get creative with my finances. But I’ve always occupied the middle-class strata, even if I’ve occasionally drifted down near the bottom rung of that particular ladder. But being straight-up poor is different. That’s […]

Students in college love to capitalize on slacking off the first week of school which is known as syllabus week. Though this actually isn’t true, we love to think that because it’s the first week of school, our professors won’t give us any homework. As a senior, it made me a little emotional to think […]

For many of us, the past few weeks have been filled with moving boxes, the hauling of desks up countless flights of stairs, and the consumption of pizzas while sitting cross-legged on the living room floor. With many leases expiring in August, this is the season of moving. It is also the season during which […]

The sky is massive in West Texas. It seems to go on forever, stretching out as far as the eye can see, and eventually meeting the dusty landscape in a far off horizon. When you’re under that sky, there’s a sense of insignificance, a feeling that you matter about as much as the scrub brush. […]

“I come to Boulder for the hiking and rock climbing, nothing will beat these views. I want to be able to climb a 14er this fall.”

For anyone who has recently braved the terror that is Target during back to school, congratulations. You survived. Let’s be honest about back to school season. Once the novelty of your new backpack/agenda/room décor wears off, we are left with the reality that summer has ended. The nights that don’t require a down jacket are […]

I’d like to take a moment to practice some thinking about my thinking, metacognition, in the context of writing and climbing and sense of place. This is perhaps something that should have been done earlier, this moment of reflection, this breath, but it is nevertheless something that I have toyed with through the endless afternoons […]

From the second I heard her play, I knew she was the one for me.

First, a warning: If you’re the parent of young children, and you consider packing them into the family truckster to see the new animated film Sausage Party, purely based on the fact that it’s animated…don’t. As a parent, your job is to check out any media your kids consume before they consume it. Animation is not strictly for […]