I sit down for a therapy session this year, a few months into what has become a new ritual. Every Tuesday. The time varies. Sometimes it is a different day of the week. We try to make it the same time and place, but 2021 has other plans most of…

The last week of 2019 and the first few weeks of 2020 ended up being amazing foreshadowing for what was coming down the pipeline in 2020. I really had no idea at the time though. A bunch of years back, I started some yearly recaps so I could document how…

If this year has taught me anything, it’s that taking things for granted is a thing of the past. I wake up on election day 2020 with two main thoughts: I’m not about bothsideism at all. If one side wins and the other side loses today, Americans lose. I’m not…

It’s been a long weird week where I’m away from my family and in quarantine, not because I have COVID-19, but because my wife is high risk and I’m now dealing with the general public at work on a daily basis, a good portion of which have no masks or…

Throughout my 20’s, I found myself drawn to stories of world travelers, adventurers that were seeking out the far ends of the earth, finding them, and then turning back around and heading right back to the start. For a lot of years of my life, I found myself eternally restless…

2019 The past few years I’ve been doing some year end recaps. It occurred to me this year it’s actually truly a decade recap in some ways since 2020 is right around the corner. …

I think back to my 20s and early 30s and laugh at this point. Whenever I thought I was busy, or tired, or overworked, I was honestly just wrong and lacking perspective. You don’t know tired until you go through night after night of limited sleep. A hangover or sleepless…

Anxiety is really dumb. That’s what I want to say right now. The past few weeks I’ve been really trying to get better at everything in my life on a daily basis, because honestly some stuff has come up in recent weeks that’s made me realize I need to try…

When I was a child, people who didn’t know me very well would comment how patient I was. I was the oldest of four children, and often helping care for my younger siblings, they saw some brief moments where I displayed patience with my younger sisters. But anyone who’s ever…