Cornbread Journals

Loading up the bike and gear is easy since I’ve done it so many times.

Ivan Shishkin, “Road in rye”, 1866 High above a rumble unveils rolling, the air untethered in volume the bellows, translucent, swirling in pressure and change.

While releasing the last of four balls to the batter, I felt a sharp ting in my arm.

The movie “Backrooms” is coming out this May, and I’m ecstatic beyond words about it.

Hush, the dark forest winds blink observing their own rituals undisturbed by Anvil.

Content creators are not average people and are generally misguided because of how they take the online medium too seriously, as if it is an all-encompassing window into the world that includes the full range of societal happenings.

I wasn’t expecting to become a writing tutor in my second year of college, it just happened.

I had built and flown a TopSky 1.0 DLG over 10 years ago!

Discuss Launched Gliders (DLGs) are my favorite type of RC glider aircraft.

My friends, I turn to you for sage advice, on a very particular matter which must be resolved immediately.

I spent my summer without a computer; here is the story of how that went.

There is something sublime about low tech gadgets.

The human species will never again be able to live through the era of the quirky masterpiece of 90’s/00’s mall culture, and its quintessential perfection in a pre-social-media time must be preserved.

I am of the opinion that most passwords and other personal information should not be stored on public cloud-based systems like LastPass, Bitwarden, Dashlane, etc.

There are glitches in the field of mathematics.

I’ve read a handful of posts that nostalgically remember how the web used to be, and express dismay at the “walled gardens” that have overtaken the Internet as a whole.

Raquel taught me to make pizza in Boston.

Soaring, aka “gliding”, is a niche of the Radio Control (RC) and full-sized aviation world that features the unique challenge to stay in the air without using an engine and propeller.

Leaving home for college, finding solace on two wheels, slipping into danger, a journey to Alaska, a relationship gone sour, time wasted, dangers avoided, rules broken.

I moved to the Netherlands from the US to start an academic job, purposefully arriving a few months before my work contract was set to start so that I could backpack all over Europe.

A picture book story of how I found a niche in the world of radio controlled aircraft that I wanted to be a part of so badly that I created my own online gig to fund it.

A while ago when I was living near Boston, I started making Trader Joe’s cornbread.