Mar 9, 20186 minFire. // Suffering: Part IIPart Two of Three: On suffering, emotion, and what it’s like to walk through the fire. It’s not for everyone, but it is for every one. {...
Dec 22, 20174 minIt's Okay. // Suffering: Part IPart One of Three: On suffering, emotion, and what it’s like to walk through the fire. It’s not for everyone, but it is for every one....
Sep 20, 20172 minMargins.To the beautiful lives splashed in hues of dark melanin, to the courageous hearts of the LGBTQ community, to the immigrating brothers and...
May 26, 20173 minCounseling.I have no clue what I’m doing. I just do the motions: sandals on, jacket slung around my spring shoulders, turn the key, drive the...
May 9, 201720 minTelling It: Amanda // Part IIThe following is the second in a two-part series of an undocumented story being given debut; bringing the inside to the outside, in...
Apr 23, 201712 minTelling It: Amanda // Part IThe following is the first in a two-part series of an undocumented story being given debut; bringing the inside to the outside, in...
Feb 2, 20175 minParade.You've made tenderly sharp sacrifices in your life, I know you have. I know because I've made my own and the more I learn about people...
Oct 22, 20164 minIt Grew AnywayI witnessed a miracle. And it came in the form of a golden tomato. Sometimes I’m so ridiculously tired. So over-done. So weighed down...
Feb 17, 20163 minGeronimo. (Or: A Letter To My Everett)My Sweet Everett, You. You, love, are a gift. I've known you for 31 days and in those days you have awed me, softened me, terrified me,...
Apr 11, 20155 minThank you.To you, whom it most definitely concerns: Remember the time you made me laugh so hard I went silent, tears streaming down the sides of my...
Feb 5, 20153 minIt's Morning Again.The tiny bubbles dancing in the kettle make my feet want to stretch, my eyes want to close, and I find my cheeks rounding into a lazy...
Jan 15, 20153 minWarhorse. (Or: The Risk)Before the moment of victory, before my once-wrecked-heart became buoyant and light and mosaic ... before the almost touchable colors...