It’s strange to look back and ponder your formal self. Maybe someday I’ll stop considering the Zane from a couple years ago as a complete and total idiot, maybe that’s life’s Moment of Zen, but...

When I was in fifth grade, my mom accidentally sent my younger brother and me to a week-long Baptist summer camp. To her credit, she didn’t know it had an uber-religious bend. One of our family friends...

College is about reading. Unfortunately, most of the time this means slogging through 30 pages of academic blather on some obscure topic. But like the Stark’s always say, “Winter break is coming,”...

I know more about physics than I do about cars. This is extremely sad and pathetic, considering the only things I remember from physics are F = MA and the force of gravity is -9.8 something. The only...

My little brother is better than me at basketball. Far, far better. Not that I’m some athletic scrub – I can hold my own against most sub-division one competition. But to put it succinctly: I can...

Last week, the Senate passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, barring businesses from discriminating against gay, lesbian and transgender workers. A landmark event in the struggle for equal rights,...

“Damn, you guys are killing it!” The interview is interrupted by a friend of the band, but her comment is appropriate. Aspen Hourglass, a local progressive-alternative rock trio, has exploded...

Recently, I folded laundry for the first time in at least four months. I have lately been living out my preferred method of apparel organization, which is to pile all my clean clothes in a giant four...

Get me something “cute,” she tells me. Great. I’ve just walked into Wilbur’s - the biggest liquor store in Fort Collins - with the most open-ended instructions of all time and now I must scour...

Abortion. There are few things that can ignite a firestorm of rage as easily as that single word. The discourse of this debate, like so many in this country, is dominated by the extremities. Passion...

It was noon on a Saturday, I had just woke up and my nose is so clogged with mucus and debris that not even a single molecule of oxygen can pass through. My voice is that of an 80-year-old with emphysema....

Some things in life are simply indecipherable. Hummers, the popularity of baseball, vegans – these things have baffled me for years. Lately, one Universal Mystery has been gnawing my insides: Why...