I made a copycat of Sweetgreen’s delicious Shroonami Bowl for a fraction of the price. I never use the dressing they provide, and I don’t care for the beets they usually add, but this recipe is an easy lunch dupe to try. 

Sometimes life seems difficult for seemingly no reason. However, keep in mind you can always shift your reality just by mindfully altering your perspective.

Every bit of nature counts. You can enjoy and commune in nature daily by just stepping outside and admiring the plants and animals around you. We don’t need to summit a mountain to enjoy ourselves outside. We just needed to be outside.

There are many times I find myself in difficult situations, but I become determined to see it through because I’ve already put in so much work into overcoming the obstacles.

The more you know, the more you have time to prepare for a situation mentally. That’s why I try to arm myself with knowledge.

For the last five years, on my birthday, I have ventured out into nature to write and meditate. It’s my own personal low-budget outdoor writing retreat that gives me a moment to reflect on my past and look to the future.  

Four years ago, I made a promise to myself that I would climb the towering giants in the SoCal 6 Pack of Peaks challenge. Last weekend, I crossed the highest peak in SoCal off my list by hiking another 20 miles in the San Gorgonio Wilderness.

It may have also been out of sheer stubbornness, but I dug deep to continue facing the challenge in front of me head-on every time the world threw another person out there in front of me.

Sometimes, you are faced with an unavoidable testing ground, and it’s in those situations that you have to take advantage of the difficult opportunity and just go for it.  

Hiking is just a therapeutic medium to allow me to run away from all of my problems just to come stumbling back to embrace change and complexity in order to fix my life.

I recently joined a challenge to hike 30 miles during the month of July to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital. I chose to start off the challenge by summiting Mt. Baldy.

The unexpected experience of picking up a stray on the trail wasn’t new to me. It usually always involves trusting your life with and looking out for a complete stranger in a remote location outdoors.

April is a time for witnessing the beginnings of floral blooms. It’s the warm embrace of the emerging sunlight after a cold winter season. April also happens to be National Poetry Month.

You can follow whoever you want online and gain incite and encouragement from experienced professionals and wise teachers, but the people you look up to and your idols are still human.

Many are lulled into wanting to become an influencer as a legitimate career, but the majority have no idea what it takes to get there. 

My life now may be much less chaotic, but I’ve gained lessons and a renewed way of viewing life.

Our community had been given this narrative that Black people didn’t go outdoors. However, after entering the hiking community, I realized that belief couldn’t be farther from the truth.

I wanted to share a poem that I wrote for my first love in honor of this year’s modern and Christianized Valentine’s Day holiday.

California was graced with heavy wind and pouring rain this winter season. As a result, higher elevations were blanketed in white powdery snow, but not every trail is the same. You need to know the difference before going outdoors. Here’s what you should know before hiking peaks in the snow.

I didn’t know anything about the national park growing up and didn’t hear anything about it until I was no longer living right next to it. This made me think about how this situation could have been avoided.

I have been living a plant-based lifestyle since 2007, and I don’t plan on going back. I’ve only ever seen positive changes to my health and energy over the past 15 years, and I plan on continuing my vegan path because of what I have learned.