Adam Oster, Adventure Novelist

As I type this, I’m looking at only having approximately 36 hours until I’m allowed back into my home. And I honestly don’t know if I can make it. After talking with my wife this morning, I’m realizing more and more how terrible of a choice it was for me to choose performing in a…

As I sit here in my hotel room alone the morning after moving out of the house in order to try and keep healthy, I’m taken by both how loud it is outside of this room, while also how quiet it is without my kids screaming through the house as they get ready for school.…

After two years of waiting for it to happen, COVID finally hit my house. And I’m sitting here in a hotel reverse-quarantined from my family to avoid getting sick. And I feel sick about it. My wife, who is doing quite well considering her status as being COVID positive, is currently at home, with our…

We live in a weird time. A time where nearly anything can be ‘true’. And, well, I’m a little conflicted over how I feel about it. The big example in the current world is, obviously, what is lovingly referred to as fake news. Spin doctors aren’t anything new. For as long as we’ve had tales…

As I write this, it’s the morning after our first rehearsal with an audience for the murder mystery I wrote and am starring in, Lei’d to Rest – A Hula-Dunit Murder Mystery. I know I’ve talked a few times on here before about how how nerve-wracking this whole experience has been thus far. While this…

Derrick slowly sipped his brightly colored drink, watching from above as the red color drained from the crushed ice while more and more of the beverage slid down his throat. He sighed gleefully at the light burn of the rum on the back of his tongue. Sitting in his position at the pool-side bar, half…

An interview with Jeff Goldblum recently revealed how the actor decided to cut coffee out of his life because he felt it was a mental crutch, something he needed in order for his brain to work. And I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more true statement.

Heck folks, today’s a day where I find myself questioning some of those existential pieces of life, specifically, what the heck am I going to do?

When we first moved back to the city, we were excited to see that there was a karate dojo just a couple blocks away from our new home. Our boys were excited at least. And during the time it took for me and the wife to get comfortable in the new digs, a pandemic shot…

I don’t need to tell you that the last couple of years have been a rollercoaster. Obviously with the craziness of a presidential election and all of the social unrest bubbling over the top, not to mention things like a little attempt at a coup happening a little over a year ago, we’ve just had…