Underpriced goat meat in Peru, overpriced coffee in Alabama.

Right, wrong, and what we think we fear the most in the end.

Finding emptiness during a motorcycle trip across the Balkans.

Midnight musings while traveling Morocco by train.

Memorializing the dead. Why I’ve always wanted to stop, and why I never will.

Take it from this author… a few AK-47 rounds over the head are the perfect motivator to get your car in gear.

Why buying a firearm was the only thing that made me certain I’d never use one on myself.

Hair loss often seems a black-and-white battle. For me, it’s never felt that simple.

I used to be sure that I wanted to show the world what I was made of (and then die). Motorcycles helped me realize what I really wanted was the opposite.

Failure in the mountains is a drawn-out, ponderous affair. But perhaps that’s what makes success so rewarding.

Unearthing affection for an activity I once dismissed.

Some dismiss sword and sorcery media as “tales of power for the powerless.” My own experience with the genre has been decidedly different.

My experience with chronic pain, mental and physical isolation, and living the life I always wanted to live.

Publications stopped catering to the reader the day we stopped footing the bill. Digital subscription models allow us to take them back.

Mind-numbing beauty lives in the most mundane of environs, if we train ourselves to look for it.

It’s dangerous, yeah. But that inherent risk also forces us to face our mortality and live a little more authentically.

Three tactics I use to stay stoked and stave off depression.