
If you've caught yourself on autopilot, this was written for you. I share short personal essays about life, trying repeatedly to teach me something. They start with a story and find a thread worth pulling. (Warning: Humor is my coping mechanism.)
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Smoked sausage with mac and cheese is one of my favorite comfort meals. I know it is as unhealthy as it is delicious. I grew up with it. When my mom made it, I would distract her a bit and sneak a piece of...
I was friends with Tom. Everyone with a MySpace page was friends with Tom. I demoted Tom to carefully select my Top 8 friends to display on the front page. There was friendship politics involved in jockeying for Top 8 status.
The website s...
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Because of the US holiday this past weekend, I heard a lot of patriotic songs. Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” played over the speakers. I knew many of the words, but not all of them. Right about t...
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The last thing I remembered was someone yelling, “Heads up!” The youth group gymnasium was also an auditorium. I sat on the lip of the stage chatting while the older kids played volleyball. It was planned a...
I sat by the window on a flight from Scotland to the US. The sun was rising. The sky bled pinks and reds into a pool of purple. A light fog hung on the horizon, and I could faintly detect a rainbow. I took a photo, but the rainbow wasn’t vi...
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Husband, father of four, friend, owner of 4 pups. Avid reader, listener, writer, and perpetually curious. Person with a corporate job (but I get to study psychology in the wild).
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