It’s 80 degrees in Chicago and I’ve got the day off. That can only mean one thing. It’s time to take the top down.  At 8 in the morning it’s still chilly outside, but that’s not a good enough excuse not to enjoy my youth. So I’m out to find a place to focus, cruising, living life, blasting some alternative rock trash whe-OH FRICK BASTILLE...

Photography - Faith O'Leary Prose - Nikki Macahon The Dress I used to think professionals wore dresses to compromise. They wrote to survive, they didn’t enjoy it. Professionals write articles, manuals, essays, and all other things that bored them to death. Their work was taken from them and rewritten by someone else who didn’t respect...

You know, sometimes, you just have those weeks.  You know the ones. When anything that comes out of your mouth is an awkward stutter. When you break a shadow box at work and need to spend the money you were saving for a book shopping spree to replace it. When it rains so hard that there’s a puddle of water in your car that you have to mop...

*cracks knuckles* Let’s do this.  As an aspiring writer with a following that is still a work in progress get off my baCK ‘KAY HERMONO? I’M WORKING ON IT, I do not have a lot going on in the writing sense. Outside of my part time job, the projects I’m pounding out are barely anything compared to the work load of a profession. But it...