
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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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...
Pixar’s Cars came out the year my oldest was born. As soon as he could, he fell in love. We had Cars books, blankets, and Cars character toy cars. We were late getting them. So, we had to drive all over the metroplex to collect each charact...
I love Chinese food. Or I at least like the accessible, highly Americanized version. In my early twenties, I got far more adventurous with food and ventured beyond sweet and sour chicken.
I don’t remember what dish I ordered, but it had th...
It was a global pandemic. Everything felt different. I’d been home for nearly a year. Things got weird. As I age, I have started the necessary, but unflattering, task of trimming my nose hairs. It doesn’t take much time. I just have to do i...
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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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