The thin, tinny alarm of my wrist watch sounded blaring in the dark, silent winter morning. I popped my head out from my sleeping bag,...

I think of thunderstorms a lot when I shoot. Once when I was little, I got stuck outside during a particularly bad lightning storm, and...

Stand up comedy has always been a love of mine, ever since I was a child. I vividly remember sitting transfixed watching Maria Bamford's...

In my last piece, I talked about how most of what we perceive as Autistic behavior stems from how our brains perceive information: while...

I've been thinking about writing something about my experience as an autistic archer for some time, as it's something folks message and...

On Learning the Wrong Things Well I recently watched a young, self-taught archer shoot. His form was…interesting. It was inefficient,...

What thought do you have when you first step on the line? I have one that comes to mind over and over. I say it to myself as I feel the...

"The real archer's paradox is the archer themself." A coach and I were discussing what qualities make a good archer. Ideally a few easy...

Target Panic, Food Poisoning, and the Joy of Shooting This season I received two of the best honors of my short archery career while...

"Archery transforms loss into learning, failure into curiosity, and winning into humility." I don't get tattoos lightly. Really, for all...

"With time archers can look at holes in paper and see stories" I'm not one to create personal rituals, nor one to engineer metaphorical...

Why it matters how we talk about targets, for ourselves and others The other day I heard a newer archer bemoan a 5 they hit, saying it...

"But what do I have to lose?" For once, I'll get to the point: I'm autistic. I'm not very open about this. Folks who discover they're on...

"Is a goal a direction or a limitation of imagination, or both?" I was talking with an archery friend the other day, and we got to...