Hold on to your pants, everyone.

I’m starting a new series.

I know what you’re thinking.

And I’m not really sure what you did to deserve this either.

In addition to my semi-regular installments of Stuff I Really Kind of Like About My Life in China, I will also be writing about challengey [...]

I had high hopes for my summer.

Like so high it’s possible I was on drugs.

I was going to get tons of writing done. I was going to go running everyday and get in shape. I was going to blow you all away with a series of top ten blog posts like you’d [...]

When I was kid, I almost drowned.

Yeah, like, to death.

(If you want to take a moment right now to contemplate what your life would be like without me and to cry inconsolably, I’ll understand. Feel free to pull out your hair a bit if that makes you feel any better. I’ll wait.)

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You know that old saying about learning from your mistakes?

Yeah, well, that doesn’t apply to me so much.

I make a lot of mistakes. Like, a lot of them.

If to err is human, then I must be some kind of super-human because I’m, like, really super good at erring.

Of course, every [...]

I mentioned a few posts back, that in the third grade I chipped my front tooth while hanging off the merry-go-round at school. This was in an attempt to show off my daredevilry skills — daredevilry skills that, sadly, I did not actually possess at the time (or now). I also didn’t happen to [...]