jakelyda

Big Things Are Coming

Instagram When doors close, windows open. Thank goodness I'm athletic... The universe is always giving me signs, teaching me lessons. I believe if you're aware,...

Well, That Was Fast...

Less than 24 hours, and I'm two flights away from coming back home. It cost us over $800 to move up our return trip by 6 months. We broke off our contract with ...

Guess Where I Live Now?

Ya boi has gone off the deep end this time. I am currently writing this from Dahab, Egypt, a few meters from the Red Sea on the south end of the Sinai Peninsula...

Why I Switched to CrossFit: How getting real with myself made me do something I said I never would…

Somebody likes how I look already…it goes both ways! Everyone wants to be sexy. People don’t want to admit it, but people say a lot of things without moving the...

Eat More Veggies for a Kickass Physique (How to get more green in your machine!)

You’ve got cucumbers, peppers, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans… Fats. Carbohydrates. Protein. Everybody’s three favorite macronutrients. They make...

Grimm's Millennial Fairy Tales - 001: The Frog Prince (or: White Girls Be Trippin’)

Read the original here. In the year 2017 - when it was still cool to have an opinion and a fake Twitter profile - there lived an upper middle class white guy wi...

Grimm's Millennial Fairy Tales - 000: Introduction

Hello everybody! My name is Jake Lyda, and I am the author of Grimm's Millennial Fairy Tales. It is a compilation of fairy tales from the infamous Grimm Brother...