The National Sports Collector Convention is a card convention that occurs every year, though no year in history has been quite like the 2021 National. For context, sports cards, trading cards, and collectibles across the board saw a huge rise in popularity and price over the course of 2020. …

I saw the officer walk up a moment too late. He was already writing the ticket when I ran up, food in hand, phone buzzing with that familiar Doordash ping. “Come on, man. I was here a minute,” I said. Another minute later I had a fresh ticket in my…

Sometimes opening a new chapter in life is slow and meticulous. Like turning the page of a book. You get a glimpse of the next page as it’s happening and everything comes together in the simple turning of that page. Sometimes, it’s as abrupt as tires screeching onto black tarmac. …

And why having varied tastes can expand your creative horizons. For the longest time, I convinced myself that I was somehow cheating on writing if I dared love an album or a painting more than a book. Was I being disingenuous to my craft? …

WORDS The words I need to say are the words I cannot They stick like zoo animals trapped in the menagerie of me Silent bystanders to glass-tapping onlookers The words I need to say are the ones I can’t find The ones that refuse to bleed out like ink on…

To Be a Real Writer… I say relationship in a very human sense — as if writing were its own person. …

What’s an Outlier? In my article on education, I mentioned how some students, often the systemically disobedient, tend to be some of the most intelligent. These individuals, outliers from the normal distribution in more ways than one, can be some of the greatest thinkers we know. But what exactly is an outlier? What…

Something a little different today. A slam poem that came to me late last night. — I was thinking the other night About how the people I see Are just mirages of me. I was thinking about how When I go out, “hit the town,” There always seems to be something weighing me down. You see, I think, even in a room full of people, Even…

Don’t Give Yourself an Option I’ve found a ritual lately that I love. I’ll take forty-five minutes to an hour, drive up into the mountains, hike a few minutes, and just enjoy the freedom of being disconnected from everything. Sometimes I meditate, oftentimes I’ll just sit and enjoy nature. The key to this is that…