Collapse of a young adult: My journey through life – Part IV

Turns out the first thing that can go wrong is not having a clue what you want your major to be in college. Archaeology had been my earliest aspiration, but as mentioned, the dread of traveling all over and chasing jobs across universities made me shy away, along with the fact that I was interested […]

Saving the universe in adolescence: My journey through life – Part III

Coming out of my experience with panic, I began to read even more voraciously than I had before. Somehow I got it in my mind that I was going to read the entire Bible. So, without a “plan” in mind, I started in Genesis and just read. And read, and read, and read. I made […]

Dark dreams of childhood: My journey through life – Part II

We are impacted as people by sharing life with others and learning how their stories can shape our own, so here is mine. I was born and raised in rural northern Florida to a middle class, Christian family in the very early 1980s. My dad is from Indiana, where most of his family remains, but […]

Caring: My journey through life – Part I

Often I feel like I just don’t care. “Don’t care about what?” you may retort. Well, a whole lot of anything, according to how I feel. Getting out of bed. Going to work. Interacting with people. Thinking. More often than I care to admit, I’d rather just take a nap or read books or watch […]

How the heart heals and loves again

Some of us are lucky in love. We have a high school sweetheart, fall madly in love, get married and stay married for 60 years. Others of us, it doesn’t work out quite like that. Be it the inability to find anyone to love us; a lack of faithfulness by ourselves or our partner; abuse; […]

Trust and hope

You’ve heard it before, but there are few guarantees in life. Given that fact, it’s easy to view trust and hope as idiotic things. Why should anyone trust anyone else or hope in things that may very well never come to pass? I once thought I had some good answers to those questions, but time […]

Thoughts on life

When I’m down in the dumps, my mind often gravitates to larger existential questions: What am I doing? What’s the point to my life? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? Deep stuff. So I find myself lying in bed typing on my phone pontificating about my existence. Relationships with the opposite sex […]