Stop Letting the Kid Drive
Most of us know when we’ve started skating through life instead of living it. We just keep going anyway. After seven years of letting the scared kid in me do the driving, I finally saw it for what it was.
Category Life Lessons
Trolling for Jesus
When I'm wrong on Facebook, the damage stops at me. A pulpit is different, and a pulpit with a media arm attached is different again, because the people in those seats aren't scrolling past. They're being formed.
The Life I Am Still Trying to Afford
Six years ago my life crashed. I am still tired. But the life I am still trying to afford is not the one I lost, and that difference is the whole point.
How a Guitar Brought Me Back
How a guitar brought me back from years of silence, addiction, and loss. A personal essay on music as a lifeline and finding my voice again.
5 Simple Overlooked Ways to Be Happier
A warm, inspirational cover image featuring a sunrise reflected on a tranquil lake with a steaming coffee mug, journal, and reading glasses resting on a rustic wooden table. Bold typography highlights the title "5 Simple Overlooked Ways to Be Happier," emphasizing practical daily habits that quietly improve well-being, gratitude, and inner peace. Created for the Life Indiscreet series on intentional living, personal growth, and finding meaning in everyday moments.
Five Life Rules Nobody Hands You
Nobody hands you a manual for being human. These are the five rules I earned the slow way, through therapy, quiet mornings, and years of carrying things that were never mine to carry. The list I wish someone had given me twenty years ago.
No One Is Coming to Save You
No one is coming to save you. The morning a repossessed car and a dying mother-in-law forced me to stop waiting for a rescue that was never coming.