Grief was the strongest opponent I’ve ever faced. It stood undaunted in the midst of great circumstance. After finally getting ready and picking up my weapon, I just didn’t know how to wield it. It took me months before I figured how to aim well enough to every once in a while hit my challenge…Read more
Sundays It’s crucial to me that I insist to myself that I need a spiritual reset. Thinking back to my high school chemistry class where there was this one button on the digital scale that us students were “not to touch under any circumstance.” And inevitably, a classmate decided to intentionally touch the button labeled…Read more
I hate how the usual greeting of “How are you? Good? Me too!” gets thrown around so casually. To me, the question just gives me yet another chance to mask how I am actually doing. Too many “I’m doing fine” lies, and I have realized that I start to convince myself to believe the façade…Read more
“I finally get it!” one of my friends exclaims as we say goodnight at the front of my dorm building. “When you threw your first ‘I love you’ over your shoulder back when I first met you, I was really confused. I had no idea what to say in return.” And it was true. The…Read more
Pain. The first word of the day shoots through my mind. I take a deep breath and open my eyes. My phone screen reads 5:48am, and light is just starting to dance off the leaves of the tree I can see out my window. I close my eyes again and concentrate on slowing my heartbeat….Read more
