The Writing
Essays on living
the unbound life.
Writing on identity, freedom, integrity, and the cost of living a life that is not yours. Published since 1997.
The Entry Fee |When Being Needed Became My Worth
On what I believed I had to pay in order to be worth keeping There is a sentence I lived by for most of my adult life, and I never once said it out loud, because saying it out loud would have exposed it. If...
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What the Far Shore Is Made Of | Getting Past the Hurt
On release, and on the crossings that never finish Everyone wants to know how the story ends. After the wound and the...
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The Country Between Us | The Journey and the Clarity
On the distance two people have to cross when one has changed and the other still remembers Between the one who was...
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The Face I Used to Wear
On becoming someone new and standing in front of the people who knew the old you There is a mercy in being...
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The Person Who Isn’t There Anymore
On holding a pain that has outlived the one who caused it... There is a particular kind of ache that arrives late,...
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The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Lose
The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Lose On the only loss nobody insures against You are insured against nearly everything, and I...
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Freedom For Life – On what it actually means to overcome
There is a word you have been using wrong. Not because you are careless with words, but because it was handed to...
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When You Already Know the Catch – Negative Sentiment
Someone does something kind for you. They bring you coffee without being asked. They remember the thing you mentioned in passing last...
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The Watcher – There is someone standing between you and your life.
You cannot see him, because he stands behind your eyes, facing the same direction you face. He watches everything you watch. He...
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You Would Say You’re Fine
You would say you're fine. If someone asked, that is the word you would reach for. Fine. Work is busy but good....
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