personal essay

  • While the World Feels Beautiful

    So much of life happens while you’re convinced nothing particularly important is happening at all. The days can feel ordinary and repetitive, and then twenty years pass. You drive by an old house, look at a tree that used to be three feet tall, or sit across from your grown children at breakfast, and suddenly you realize just how much life was happening during all those days that felt like nothing was happening at all.

  • Maybe You’re Not Avoiding Your Life

    Sometimes returning to what’s familiar isn’t going backward. Sometimes it’s how we find enough safety to move forward again. This post is featured on Substack, Medium, and my Hellbloom Haven blog. I haven’t posted much over the last ten days or so. Life has felt a little overwhelming lately. There are so many things coming…