On Writing and Friendships
I’ve never been comfortable sharing my work. Writing has always been a release for me, a place where I dig deep inside my mind...
Author: Josh
Becoming (Momentarily) Famous
It started with a tweet, “I don’t know you, @joshkozelj27 but I love you for writing this. I see you and I am so...
Running with the Vikes, Part Two: An XC Season Recap
Over 21,300km of travel, 10 flights and two ferry trips, plus countless numbers of Cliff Bars consumed (the majority consisting of Oatmeal Raisin, with...
MXC: Running with the Vikes, Part One
With the late-summer sunshine seeping through a group of towering Pacific willow trees around Elk/Beaver Lake regional park, as I stood beside a group...
Everything I wish someone told me before University
“Only seven more days until I’m gone!” I would proclaim to my parents in the final moments before I left home for UVic, “seven...
An Attempt to Recap the Year that was
I have been purposely delaying this piece. Why? Honestly, I’m not even so sure myself. Maybe it was because I didn’t want to look...
This Team
On the day we left for Winnipeg, Mother Nature seemingly foreshadowed our trip by dumping (a slightly terrifying) five centimetres of snow to the...
Together we can end the stigma around Mental Health
In the moments before it happened I remember sitting on a charter bus ride, staring at the rolling hills of the Cascade mountain range. Then, in...
Ten Words that Changed my Life
Staring across the muddy plains, where hundreds of Canada’s best cross country runners chewed up the prairie grass in the hours previous, the sun...
The Feeling of Race Day in Victoria
It must be the tingling sensation. That feeling in your gut that you get, the butterflies flying up your digestive tract, and the way...
How Sharing Embarrassing Stories Is Healthy
My mother, God bless her heart, always had the best intentions for me. But as a child, at times I wished she could have...
How Counselling Changed My Life
I couldn’t control my leg. Up, down, up, down, up. It jittered away as my mother and I waited in the call room. A...