The Beginning About eight years ago, Casey Neistat posted a video about him and his son going to Vietnam. The video convinced me I needed to go, but I put it off for a while. A long time, in fact. This year, though, after realizing I was feeling stir crazy, I announced to my friends, …
Author: nate
dating apps
dating apps I tried to write about this topic back in 2023 and yet didn’t get very far. I wrote: I first downloaded Tinder roughly two weeks after my ex and I split up. Since then, I’ve downloaded, deleted, and re-downloaded Tinder and other various dating apps in the hopes that I meet someone different. …
six words
Every weekday I try to do some writing. I made a promise to myself to “just write” (as the idiom goes). I leave my place, go to a coffee shop or wine bar, then sit down and write. If it’s after work, I’ll usually do a small little journal entry to get into the groove …
I’ve known for a while that I have an unhealthy relationship with Instagram. It is the platform that I am most active on and the app of choice for most of my peers. As someone who is extremely social, it makes sense that the app that allows me to easily connect with acquaintances and keep …
a poem
I wrote this earlier this year. My sister made the artwork for it.
some haiku
disappointment!for I have eaten allmy yogurt sunlight through windowaimless bug can’t go outsidetrapped with me? like me? the call of the crowtaunts large cumbersome grey cloudsto cry tears of shame fuckity fuck fuckmotherfucking fuck fuckerfuck fuck fuck fuck fuck desert rain fallsswiftly and vanishesas I blink hesitation:a cat waiting to pounce on –clouds waiting to …
the mud
The mud was sad. It was a gloppy, sloppy thing that just squelched around. People mostly avoided the mud. That means that the mud was alone and this was why the mud was sad. No one really cared about the mud because no one wanted to get their shoes dirty. The mud felt like if …
Journaling like Eustace Scrubb
I was gifted a little black notebook and pen, both embossed with my initials, for Christmas by my two best friends. As much as I appreciated the gesture, I didn’t know what to do with another notebook and pen. I already had a few pens and notebooks—the pens unused, their ink drying (or dried) and …
hello rowing or: how I stopped worrying and learned to love cardio
It all started with a slight twinge inner, right elbow; or more specifically the area known as the antecubital fossa. I would climb and then it would hurt. So I’d take a 15 minute break and then go again, wincing at the pain. So I took a break. Went back after the (too) short time …
Yoga
I’ve been climbing indoors since the start of 2022. My roommate introduced me to the local climbing gym and I fell in love after the first session. I have been going roughly three times a week, MWF, and have kept that habit up since I first bought my pair of climbing shoes at REI. Of …