Africa is so beautiful and alien and extreme it almost defies description. It's warm and clear every day, the food is really good, and the veldt is gorgeous. Coming here has been worth every cent.

Hey, fuckin A, I'm in Africa right now. I just got back from taking a hike along the fenceline of Kruger Park with my friend Koen from the Netherlands. Tomorrow I begin my training as a bush guide, after which I will be leading game drives, working for the South African government in a community upliftment program, and helping study and protect ( Read more... )

"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life ( Read more... )

late at night my mind dulls and loses any edge or purpose it holds in the daytime ( Read more... )

In a nutshell: winter term I'm going to Africa ( Read more... )

I've now been taking a martial art called Jeet Kun Do for over a year. It is definately a passion of mind. JKD is a combat style and a lifestyle created by Bruce Lee. It has sort of become a big part of my beliefs about how to go through life since I started taking it ( Read more... )

I turned 20 last sunday. here's my birthday present to you... I think it's wise ( Read more... )

I hear lots of argument over gay marriage, gay rights, and so on. It's one of those polarizing questions that tends to send people into blind angry rants. So many people feel the need to express their viewpoints on it in the most belligerant of ways. Even writing about it is cliche. All the same, I feel like many Americans - even liberal, pro-gay- ( Read more... )

VOLUME 1 ( Read more... )

Last year, in one of those moments of unexpected power that have defined my life so many times before, I randomly decided to attend a book reading on campus. A girl dragged me there to see one of her favorite authors, a man who I knew nothing of - Tobias Wolff ( Read more... )