A window into my life

The Wedding that never was

What I had thought was just the beginning of our lives together was the end. Spring, 2023

April 22nd was supposed to be one of the happiest days of our lives- the date of the wedding that would mark the start of the rest of our lives together. Now that day is here, and I find myself at the top of a mountain, looking down into the valley at the exact spot where I would be standing, waiting for my fiancée to become my wife in another life.

Higher education, roadkill, and a totaled car

What do these things have in common? Answer: me as a sophmore at Dickinson College. Spring, 2013

I looked on in disbelief. In the front of the class, one of my classmates was holding a completely flattened squirrel by its tail. From the looks of it, it had been completely squashed by a large truck, possibly even an 18-wheeler. I took a quick look around to survey my classmates. Everyone else seemed quite awestruck too, but somehow no one had the audacity to bring it to the professor’s attention that this was an insane thing for someone to be doing. It was the second day of my first upper-level biology class at Dickinson College, a class called A Natural History of Vertebrates. I didn’t know it then, but the class was going to get a lot weirder from there.

Misery island was both incredible and miserable

For just $90, you too could have a boat capable of taking on 6 foot seas and making it to an island 2 miles off the coast. September 2017

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