Rebuilding Requires Vision Things aren’t always as they seem. Behind the veil of democracy we find fraud, underneath systems of... Read More
The worst thing in the world would be to live your whole life and come to the end and know that it's the end and think like… I wasn't there. I missed the whole thing. Read More
We spend so much time together in a way I feel off balance without him. It’s an odd effect that generally only lasts the first day or so of being apart. But it creeps up in the side of my mind, like I forgot something but I’m not sure what. Read More
The truth of any love, a lesson you learn after the first, is that with love often comes pain. The two exist entwined. They are necessary opposites that give each other meaning–pulling in opposite directions creating the tension needed to stand upright. Read More
We are, as the philosophers put it, defined by our will to do better. We are perpetually striving. Read More
“Ep 24 – Are you cheating?” from Speaking of Carrie by Melissa Stokoski and Elyse Brandau on Apple Podcasts Was... Read More
As a society, we have romanticized the notion of suffering; we are so drawn to the idea of suffering that we cannot look away when we see it, and we cannot give it up when we experience it. Read More
Winter urges us inwards; into our apartments, into our beds, into our ourselves. It is the season for sadness, or rather, self-reflection. Read More
They say living in the past is what causes depression, so have no past. She was choosing to have no past – to not let a person exist only in a former state of her being. Read More