Dad, Am I Man Enough?
My father died when I was 3 years old. I have no recollection of him. The most vivid memory I have pertaining to him is being in a room I...
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- Feb 25
- 15 min
The Lies We Told
I thought about how laborious it had become to do for her. My mother taught me to do for a woman, taught me that my actions were the loudest
- Feb 12
- 3 min
Human
I’m at this weird age where the pressure to get it right is immense. You know, you have to make the right choices. Show up every day. Be...
- Jan 29
- 4 min
Notes to my younger self.
It is often incredibly difficult to see whether or not you are moving if you so focused on where you are and where you are headed without...
- Jan 22
- 7 min
420 Times
Dear management, I fear the day will come when you will tire of my inability to properly express myself verbally and my need to resort to...
- Dec 31, 2022
- 4 min
THIS YEAR
A simple truth is that we cannot limit our goals to a particular timeframe. How can we when it is neither you nor I that controls the...
- Dec 4, 2022
- 4 min
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE
See, when God made you and I, He factored in our stupidity. He knew we’d be here, racking up ridiculous decision after ridiculous decision.
- Nov 9, 2022
- 5 min
October 29th
When I was thirsty earlier this morning, I rolled out of my bed and strode across the house to our kitchen. The compartment of the...
- Oct 23, 2022
- 3 min
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM DOING
Sometimes making it through the day is a massive enough victory; sometimes that is more than enough...
- Oct 1, 2022
- 13 min
WE ARE PREGNANT
I had always thought it funny how easy it was to speak and look down from our thrones of morality upon those in whose shoes we had not walke
- Sep 10, 2022
- 2 min
JUMP
Jump, kid… jump. For you learn nothing more of what lies at the bottom of the cliff by just looking over the edge. Nor do your...
- Aug 18, 2022
- 2 min
Spectrum
Please do not feel pressured to always be happy. It’s okay that there are moments in which you aren’t, moments in which you feel sad or...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
Revel in the chaos
As we grow older, I think that it is important to remember that we can never fully figure this life thing out. The basic phenomenon of...
- Jul 19, 2022
- 9 min
Pops
To Pops As per his routine at the time, Pops grabbed his coat off the hook on the back of the front door and started to head out just...
- Jul 10, 2022
- 2 min
My peace. Your peace.
I’ve been writing ever since my 5-year-old fingers could fiddle a pen. I realized very early on that I was a bad talker, and if I were to...
- Jul 8, 2022
- 3 min
FEARLESS.
You know, fear has been such a big part of my life thus far that I do not think it is, in itself, as horrible a thing as it is made out...
- Jul 5, 2022
- 1 min
Kinder.
You know you ought to be much, much kinder to yourself, right? Life, people and the world are already so hard on you. The last thing you...
- Jun 12, 2022
- 9 min
INDIGO SUNSET
To: Lu. Hey you, I suppose there’s very little, if anything at all, I could do to surprise you now seeing how well you know me. I hadn’t...
- Jun 5, 2022
- 3 min
Batons and Grocery Bags.
“Dear friend, When you tell me about your troubles and struggles, when you lay your all pain bare for me to see, as though pain were a...
- May 29, 2022
- 3 min
Overwhelmed.
That mile you were told you have to run? You will still get there if you took a step at a time, if you slowly threw one foot in front of the
- May 22, 2022
- 5 min
Reciprocity, Grace and Love.
Grace makes the incoherent notion that a holy God would still desire us whole regardless of how far we stray and how long we have tramped...
- May 15, 2022
- 2 min
Gratitude and Green Grass
The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence, doesn’t it? And I think that’s partially down to the fact that we have...
- May 8, 2022
- 2 min
Evanescence and Permanence
We probably should not spend an evanescent life chasing permanence. Perhaps we mustn't deny ourselves certain experiences just because...
- May 1, 2022
- 6 min
I Bought Myself Flowers
I have been waiting to have people I can lean on when it gets hard, people I can call at 2am to talk about how crappy the day was...
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