September 16th, 2025 I don’t have to say anything about Charlie Kirk; then again, I don’t have to say anything about anything at all, and yet I keep writing here anyway. Right away, I want to make two things I believe clear: 1. I don’t think anybody should be murdered, and this particular incident wasContinue reading “Picking Cherries”
Tag Archives: Listening
Mother Hand
March 31st, 2025 Earlier this year, I entered my first college writing contest as myself (after many years of writing college papers for other students anonymously). The results came in last night: my personal essay won first place! For my efforts, I receive a monetary prize, my work will be published by DCTC, I getContinue reading “Mother Hand”
Sleeping Dogs
March 24th, 2025 It’s no surprise I’m stressed out (because I live on this planet and this planet does not have its shit together whatsoever); I’m ambitious yet anxious, careful yet crazy, busy yet broke. I was walking past the bed and saw Marvel sleeping under the sun on our sheets, and I will neverContinue reading “Sleeping Dogs”
Know Way
March 17th, 2025 How much do you think you know? And have you ever considered our individual knowledge (or lack thereof) as a significant reason for the tension and division in this country? I was savoring a wonderful article by Laura Kennedy a few weeks ago; it was a list of advice to the readerContinue reading “Know Way”
EQ: Emotional Intelligence
January 6th, 2025 If you’ve been around me in the past week and a half, there’s little doubt you had to hear me ramble on and on about emotional intelligence; I just can’t stop thinking about it. That’s because I watched a Big Think video with Daniel Goleman, a psychologist and author of five booksContinue reading “EQ: Emotional Intelligence”
C is for Community
November 11th, 2024 What the A.A. program and hanging out with other writers has taught me about the core of any good community, and how we could use those lessons to work together (even if we don’t agree with one another).
If You’re Struggling…
July 30th, 2024 Hey, you. Yeah, you! This is a reminder post. When I first got sober over six years ago, I wrote about it a lot. I did that for several reasons (probably because I was still a little drunk, lol), but the most important was simple: I didn’t see anybody in my lifeContinue reading “If You’re Struggling…”
a little fucking better
July 17th, 2024 I’ve been thinking a lot about my mom today because I’ve been thinking a lot about change. Before she passed I was very anti-change, because she was here and who would want to move on from that? Years ago I was asked to write and sing a chorus for a spoken wordContinue reading “a little fucking better”
A Fool of One’s Own Making
May 29th, 2024 The only skill I have purposefully developed over the years as a writer is the ability to come up with some happy unhappy answers to life’s big questions. In previous essays, I’ve attacked philosophy and called it stupid (I stand by it), I’ve expressed my love for philosophy and its colorful castContinue reading “A Fool of One’s Own Making”
Silent Lambs
May 23rd, 2024 Despite common belief and evidence to the contrary, I don’t like to write political pieces. In fact, very little of what I’ve written would I consider actually political; most of our arguments and lines of division today come from cultural and moral differences, that get repackaged as shiny political keys by thoseContinue reading “Silent Lambs”
The Den 