

Day 71: Base Camp
He was on that mountain for seventy-five years. “People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once...


Day 70: The Gods Love Nubia
The weather was colder than I expected on that April day, back in 2001, but it was the first time I met her. Nothing, not even dreary...


Day 69: There Is No Try
“Decide you must how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could, but you will destroy all for which they have fought and...


Day 68: Save the Last Dance
Every time I finish out my last shift at a bar, it's bitter-sweet. I usually know I'm moving forward towards something exciting, but...


Day 67: The Charles Atlas Seal of Approval
"A weakling, weighing ninety-eight pounds will get sand in his face, when kicked to the ground. And soon in the gym, with a determined...


Day 66: Belly of the Beast
The shark's body loomed beneath the water, eventually raising it's head out from beneath the murky deep. Frozen, Chief Brody walked...


Day 65: Love in Idleness
I was so nervous. At a young and sheltered seventeen years old, I don't think I'd ever been as nervous as that moment. "Ill met by...


Day 64: Sea Cat Cooler
American writer Harriet Jackson Brown Jr. once wrote "Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of...


Day 63: New Horizons
Without a doubt, the weather today has been absolutely beautiful. Being stuck inside so much lately had me a bit stir crazy, so I thought...


Day 62: Bent My Wookie
"Ah, Diorama-Rama. My favorite school event next to Hearing Test Thursday." There isn't usually a lot of wisdom in the words of The...


























