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twenty-seven club

November 2, 2012 Uncategorized

We still have two months to go before the year is up, but for some reason I’m finding myself combing through the past ten in reflection of where I’ve been at 27. Maybe because my head is constantly processing the what-ifs and the then-whats of how 28 and 29 and 30 are going to look, once I find out where I’m going next for school. [And yes, we’re purposefully ignoring the possibility of not getting in anywhere, for now] Twenty-sevenRead More

Inventing relevance

October 11, 2012 Uncategorized

The thing that’s been great about all this floundering unemployment is that it’s helping me evolve myself into the writer I’ve always wanted to become. And by that, I don’t mean at all that I’ve become good at it. But I am writing, and that’s more than I can say for the majority of the last decade in which I merely thought about it. I have time to read so much now, which as many successful writers will tell you,Read More

Dissolve Me

October 10, 2012 Uncategorized

Nothing like a moonlit swim in the freezing Puget Sound to remind you how exquisitely alive you are. Sitting on the bluff overlooking the water, jagged sharp foot-wide perch in between my legs dangling over the edge to sharper landings below, I sat air drying in the near-warm breeze with a towel slaked over my shoulders, staring at the reflections of the moon and lights of Canada and Bellingham and the sultry liquid darkness offering so sweetly to swallow meRead More