I recently visited Arkansas for the first time, with Joe. It had been many years since he had returned back home to where he grew up and it was my first time meeting his family. During our time there we visited a cavern system in the Ozarks in the Northeastern part of the state. I’m…
As I approached the end of my Sophomore year of high school I was ready to opt out. There were some positive things at high school, like the Speech Team, which I loved, but most of my classes were literally a waste of time, and I was ready to move on. I started studying to…
My entry into public high school was difficult. It was a huge culture shock coming from an extremely conservative, sheltered, no-TV, limited-access-to-mainstream-culture background, to a rough (yes: gangs, drugs, weapons, violence…all the things), racially diverse (white, black, hispanic, asian, and significant immigrant populations especially from North Africa and Southeast Asia), economically disadvantaged public high school….
In looking back, I now I realize that much of my motivation in my early life was about escaping the pressure cooker environment that was my family home. Everyone was doing the very best that they could, but the actual parameters of the space and the situation were such that things were cramped and emotionally…
This post will just be a short anecdote about problems, solutions, alchemy and human nature. One afternoon my mom and siblings and I were visiting with a couple of other large homeschooling families. My sister and I were playing with several other girls around our own ages out in our friend’s yard. We were playing…
I am committed to writing a book over the next several months. To help keep me on track and accountable, I am publicly committing to posting content chunks here on the blog each Friday. These chunks of writing won’t be perfect and they will go through further editing before the book is ready for publication….
I am committed to writing a book over the next several months. To help keep me on track and accountable, I am publicly committing to posting content chunks here on the blog each Friday. These chunks of writing won’t be perfect and they will go through further editing before the book is ready for publication….
I am committed to writing a book over the next several months. To help keep me on track and accountable, I am publicly committing to posting content chunks here on the blog each Friday. These chunks of writing won’t be perfect and they will go through further editing before the book is ready for publication….
The feeling of shame is one of the most painful feelings there is. For many people, the discomfort they feel in relationships and the pain associated with a breakup, stems from shame. But most of us don’t really understand shame, and have a hard time even recognizing it when we are experiencing it! Shame is…
If you are currently involved in online dating you have most likely heard about the recent changes to OK Cupid. These started to trickle out in December 2017 and by now they have been implemented site-wide. First of all they did away with unique usernames, forcing everyone to use their “first name”. When the first…