Shaking the Snowglobe

Alex, Zach, and Hayley left our Tahoe house yesterday. Eating dinner by myself and falling asleep to an empty house gave me a sense that my trip was truly beginning. I woke up feeling the past four days of skiing deep in my legs. A calm morning of oatmeal, reading the Eastern Sierra backcountry skiing…

I am currently in Tahoe, and this upcoming Friday am driving out to Salt Lake City to meet up with my old New York roommate and close college friend Alex. We’re staying in an Airbnb with some new friends to ski at Alta for the weekend. On Monday, Alex and I are planning to drive…

In college I was reading BJ Novak’s book of short stories (its called One More Thing, Stories and Other Stories), and he has an acknowledgement at the end that really stuck with me. He thanks two of his childhood friends, who he used to stay up all night writing jokes for, because they taught him…