Category Life Lessons

i will march in relief

your soul speaks to me

Mistakes and Where to Go Next

I’ve been thinking about mistakes a lot lately.  I find them fascinating when characters in film and television make them.  Perhaps not so fascinating in real life. It’s interesting how we perceive mistakes whether it’s in the moment or afterwards.  Sometimes it’s even before it happens because we know we have a decision to make, […]

Help Out My Cousin and His Awesome Project

Help young members of the military who struggle with depression through acoustic performances and intimate interviews from their favorite bands. http://igg.me/at/zero-platoon-summer-tour/x

Anxiety in the Digital Age

For the last year I’ve been struggling with panic attacks. They were very severe at first. They could last for a few hours. It wasn’t pretty. The first time I thought I was having a heart attack, which is common in the middle of an “episode.” But I slowly got a grasp on it. Breathing […]

Growth and Change

When I was a kid I had a stool. A little red stool. A stool like this. The stool was mine, and I did use it all the time. It was a children’s thing, very small. Not something big enough to carry into adulthood and expect to be able to rely on it. I’ve thought […]

Jessie on the brain…

“Where do you think I’m going to go when I die.”  Jessie asked me, his big stupid eyes, being so beautiful, so amazing.  You wouldn’t know those eyes were losing the battle they had fought so long. “I don’t know.”  I really didn’t.  I had no answer to a question like that. “Come on.”  He […]