Maybe it is hubris. Maybe I want there to be this thing that isn't there. I still wonder how much my words and actions really mattered, in the larger Continue Reading
Why You Should Brush Your Teeth with Your OTHER Hand
Image Credit: "Poppy Thomas-Hill" Almost every passing moment we navigate the world with routine. Our brain has built and reinforced neural Continue Reading
Should I?
Should I? Why did I? I broke the rule, why? Actually, I broke multiple rules. Rules I break more often when she is gone. Why? Continue Reading
The First Time They Saw It All
The room sat with the palpable pain of the past. Every eye red and glossy. We sat as they called me "the rock"; "the untainted"; "the Continue Reading
The Only Way to Understand It… is to Live It
Each drop seemed to bring a sense of chaotic peace. It seems to always take me back to another time in another life. I sat and sifted through my Continue Reading
It takes a special person to risk so much for people who care so little.
“It takes a special person to risk so much for people who care so little.” When I was younger, this sentiment rang true. To have been through Continue Reading
An Arm’s Length Away
As the world came crashing down, those men did what they do best, they fought on. They fought to preserve that which others sought to take. They Continue Reading
They Were but Moments Away from the Same Fate
I walk the halls like nothing has changed. I walk the halls and act as I always have. I walk the halls as I always have and yet they do not react Continue Reading
When the Badge Became a Memory
I slithered through the halls, avoiding one final chastising from our hypocritical command. I stood in the drizzle and shook hands for yet another Continue Reading
Where the Uniform Ends I Begin
The uncertainty leaves me perplexed. The world passes me by as I wonder if these are my last moments. Is today the last day I don this uniform? Are Continue Reading
Is It Me?
I cannot help but wonder if it is me. Of course, it's me. It has to be. It is me who has exceptionally high self-expectations. It is me Continue Reading
Becoming What I Was
My eyes begin to shift faster than before. My head higher; my mind more consumed. My every action more deliberate. I find myself becoming what I Continue Reading