Life
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Missing Adam
For the last year or so I’ve been sharing my lunch with a man named Adam. On my way to work I’ll stop at the corner where he usually sleeps, on a metal grate under a tree. It’s dark, quiet, and one of the driest places he can find (we live in Seattle after all).…
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Family
I suppose if you want to be an ass, you could live by the literal meaning of biological family groupings but you don’t want to be that guy, do you? Nah, I didn’t think so. No, these days family means so much more than a bit of nucleotides and I think the future of families…
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Back and better than ever!
Hey bitches! {I mean that affectionately of course.} After an impromptu six week hiatus I am back and better than ever! Why six weeks, you ask? I’m not gonna lie, I needed some time to come to grips with my ever mounting pile of rejection letters. -What I learned from my time away- Lesson one:…
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Life without modern convenience.
We are constantly bombarded with content. Everywhere you turn there is something new to feed your brain cells and, as technology has grown, the information swirls and dances around us, like an invisible current- forever connecting us to everything. Except… There was a block of time in my childhood where I was plucked from these…
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And yet, here I am.
Some people think hardship makes a hard life, and it can, but I think hardship also makes strong people and builds strong bonds. This lesson is one I learned from my mother… with my mother. Between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one my mother conceived six times, though she only bore two children. My older brother…
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Two Halves of a Whole
I watched a man walking down the street the other night, he stopped mid-step and screamed at the heavens before turning and knocking over a newspaper stand. I felt for him. I saw the struggle he was feeling and it reminded me of myself, when I was younger. I always felt like there were two…
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Hero in a Dressing Gown.
Strength is not always found in your muscles and family is more than a shared genetic bond. I learned these lessons from the most unlikely woman. When I met her, she was being rushed into a trauma room with an oxygen mask on high and second degree burns on one arm. She looked like a…
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Friendship as an Adult
I have been thinking about friendship lately and it’s funny to me how simple it is to make friends as a child. Most everyone is on equal footing and all it takes is one thing in common. “Look, we’re both wearing Converse, best friends forever!” But as we get older, we close ourselves off bit…
The Mad Minstrel 