Month: December 2016

I'll go to the gym.  I'll volunteer.  I'll eat better, live better, be stronger.  In a sense, New Year's Resolutions are a way of testing our resolve -- of looking back at what you have no interest in repeating and seeing just how long you can keep those things behind you.  With each item on the… Continue reading Resolve →

There's a new trend on Facebook, one where you post a picture of yourself from 2006, then one from 2016. I've been meaning to do it. Especially since us godforsaken late Millenials -- the ones who got Facebook in 2006 -- have quick access to those pictures from 10 years ago. I've been meaning to… Continue reading Gardenia / If She Could See Me Now →

I once likened writing a book to a long run. A really long run. Particularly, that part in the run when you've hit the wall, when the road stretches out into infinity in front of you.  When you feel like you've started running through molasses, when you feel less like you're running so much as you're… Continue reading This Is What It Feels Like to Write a Novel →

It was Thanksgiving of 2014 when I looked at the man sitting in the arm chair of the living room.  Thanksgiving of 2014 when I looked at a shell of a human being, a shell that was simultaneously hollow and yet filled with all the things I still couldn't sort out. It was Thanksgiving of 2014 when… Continue reading This Is What Rebuilding Feels Like →