My friend Kylan Nieh spent much of his childhood dreaming of entering the Olympics with the U.S. men’s gymnastics team. When I met him through a technology program in high school, he had already been competing against current national team members for eight years but had suffered a serious elbow Read More…
In the lyrics of his 2012 song “Boyfriend,” Justin Bieber sadly neglects perhaps the most ignored aspect of the English language: the subjunctive mood. “If I was your boyfriend, I’d never let you go.” Sorry, Justin. If you were my boyfriend, you’d never let me go. (Maybe I’d let you Read More…
On our way back from a recent trip to L.A., my friends and I decided to make a pit stop a few dozen miles past Bakersfield. (I think we wanted to avoid the commotion that is the Bakersfield In-N-Out.) So around 2 p.m., we walked into a Taco Bell, one Read More…
