One day when I was around three or four years old, I went blackberry picking with my mother in the forest surrounding my grandparents’ house in Punxsutawney. In one part of the forest, there is a long path that leads to a clearing with tall grass and blackberry bushes on…

On March 20th, 2018 I had an out of body experience in Rennes, France. At the time, I was studying abroad in Prague, Czech Republic during my junior year of college. …

My life changed on the morning of May 22nd, 2016. I was back home for the summer after my first year of college, getting used to being home. The night before had been pretty eventful. A party had been thrown at one of my friend’s houses. There were about ten…

Yesterday I took a swim in a pool, the same pool I almost drowned in when I was four years old. More than a decade ago, my mother, father and I took a trip to California. I distinctly remember seeing the Redwood Forest, visiting some hot springs, and spending time…

Florida 2004: My mom and an eight year old me Visited my aunt and my two cousins. We went to my cousin’s little league game, And he got candy for winning. His baseball cap was full of Lollipops and Big League Chew. He shared some with me. I watched Dragon…

A few days before I moved to the other side of the country, I visited a few friends of mine. They had been on a short vacation for a couple of days on a ski resort only an hour away from where we all lived and grew up. One of…

Sometimes when I can’t sleep, I flip my body horizontally one hundred and eighty degrees and proceed to sleep on the opposite side of the bed. This produces a very disorienting and hallucinogenic effect, where I often wake up multiple times during the night thinking that my right and left…

There were many moments as a child where I was obsessed with certain things, only to fail miserably at upon actually taking part in them. Since then, I have always been an onlooker and never a participant. When I was eight years old and in the second grade, I was…

For a time, I worked in a small souvenir shop On the side of a long highway. Convenience stores, corporate restaurants, and miscellaneous businesses Ensnared six lanes of wheeled vehicles That passed by endlessly with a thunderous roar. One day, an old man walked in and began to walk around…