June 9th, 2025 The internet has done a really good job of making us feel really bad about the state of society and I’m going to try to simplify why while offering, I hope, a little sip of hope. There is one undeniable fact about any comment section on any social media page: It lowersContinue reading “Comments on the Comment Section”
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This Is 40
May 1st, 2025 It’s my birthday today. I love my birthday. I’m awful like that. I also believe that you should cherish celebrating each one, because there will come a point in time when you cannot. That’s dark, but it’s my birthday. So let’s face facts: I’m supposed to be dead. I did all theContinue reading “This Is 40”
Real Talk: Autism
April 16th, 2025 There is a lot going on in the world, and it’s difficult for me to pick up a single thread and follow it through in a meaningful way, especially when the people in charge insist on tangling every wire we own. I’m not about to start targeting every person on my feedContinue reading “Real Talk: Autism”
help wanted
January 31st, 2024 If you read any of my stuff, I have a question for you! I’m entering an essay contest at school. An instructor really liked one of the papers I wrote last semester and suggested I submit it, but I was wondering: Do you have a favorite essay of mine from over theContinue reading “help wanted”
Block
January 19th, 2025 It’s funny, trying to unlearn the ways the internet has broken our brains and reverse the damage life has done to our hearts. The world feels like it’s turning faster than normal lately, and I’m not really writing about any of it. Nobody is asking me to, but then again, nobody everContinue reading “Block”
Bye Bye Bye
November 6th, 2024 Oh, boy. Woof. After a tumultuous few days (though, let’s be honest, it’s really been years), starting tomorrow I will be blocking specific people from my social media accounts. It’s not a small amount. Before I do that, however, I want to explain myself and give you a chance to read it.Continue reading “Bye Bye Bye”
National Recovery Month
September 24th, 2024 September is National Recovery Month. If you’re reading these words, then congratulations: you know someone who struggles with addiction! I couldn’t begin to list all the reasons why I’m public about my own sobriety, but there are two big ones: 1. I believe that light is a disinfectant; that so many ofContinue reading “National Recovery Month”
Bored Room
August 19th, 2024 I don’t give advice, but there are things I say often that I think are worth saying. I wouldn’t call it wisdom; in fact, they’re just words from an arrogant, not-as-smart-as-he-thinks-he-is asshole (these are all choice words said about me in my own comment section over the years). I can’t help butContinue reading “Bored Room”
The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind
June 14th, 2024 It’s both alarming and comforting that the way we act on the internet isn’t anything new, if you look into the history of humanity at all. I watched the epic Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home from 2005 on PBS this afternoon. (“Epic” as in I watched all three-and-a-half hours of itContinue reading “The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind”
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 