Essays, updates, and dispatches from the void — newest first.
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The Missing Years
Trauma can erase years you’re still living through. The Missing Years is a personal essay on dissociation, grief, and getting fourteen lost years back.
Recent Posts
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It’s Not Okay: Gun Violence in America
Why does no one really talk about this? These stories have become background noise in a world too busy to…
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Guidepost
“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out…
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More Dangerous Than a Gun
The Matrix is one of my favorite movies, and I’m not entirely convinced that we don’t live in a simulation,…
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Gone
It’s always sudden in the end. They are here, then they’re gone. It doesn’t matter why, because it always boils…
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Not a Cult!
I’m thinking about starting a commune. It’s mainly for financial reasons, nothing too “cultish.” I mean, you will have to…
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Grace
It’s not dignified; it’s embarrassing, if I’m being honest—this business of growing old. It is one of the many reasons…
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The Stories We Tell
We tell stories. We tell stories about what happened at the grocery store. We tell stories about our kids, our…
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This Present Darkness
There is a deep and unshakable sadness in me. It’s there even though I’m happy. It’s there even though I’m…
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Home
What is a home? I suspect that the answer is different for different people. For me, it’s the house we…
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-Ryan
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