Journey of 971 Stairs

If there’s one thing my college is known for, it’s the stairs. The campus is on a hill, so instead of students biking, skateboarding, or taking a shuttle to class we trudge up up up and then down down down. People joke that they never have to go to the gym; climbing the stairs to class…

Come Again Another Day

It rained yesterday.  Okay, I know, it’s not breaking news. But I’d forgotten what winter rain was like. When I lived in Portland, I never thought anything of the rain. I rarely checked the weather report, because let’s be real, it was going to rain almost daily from October to May. I donned my purple rain shell every…