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. Read one and see what lands.
Two People, Same Chore | What Identity Does That a Mask Cannot
Picture two sons doing the exact same thing for their mother. Both of them drive to the hospital. Both of them sit with her, bring her food she probably won't eat, help her home when she's discharged, clean the parts of the house she can't...
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The Human Bleed Project
From a night in March 2023 to a six-step corporate pathway. The origin of the Human Bleed Project, the seven openings, the...
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The Cry Before the Song
The Cry Before the Song Part three of a series on the Religion Mask and what it costs the faithful Every preacher...
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Excavation Before Embodiment
Two surgeries, one order. Why every communication technique fails on a person who has not recovered himself, and why the order is...
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The Shoe That Never Drops
You are lying in bed next to someone who loves you, and a thought walks in uninvited. What if this is the...
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The Collapse Cascade
Fifteen links from a destabilized identity to an eroded margin. Why PIPs, EAPs, and replacement hires target step twelve when the cause...
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Why I Stopped Calling It Coaching
The word ran out before the work did
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The Dial
There is a particular kind of hearing loss that men who worked in mills carry, and the strange thing about it is...
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The Seven Openings
Marriage, body, caregiving, money, sleep, grief, numbing. Seven doors the same destabilization walks through. James Tippins walks each one and what is...
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The Weak Moment
A single moment of collapse is not the same thing as being weak. On the quiet renaming that turns a report into...
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