24 Hours well worth it. — Before I get started, this isn’t me taking the suddenly trendy route of trashing Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, in an effort to direct traffic my way. As disappointing as many of you may find this, I have no problem with Elon buying Twitter (He purchased it, not stole or…

After a tough but necessary conversation with a loved one days ago, I spent my weekend mainly reflecting, not just on what was said, and how I felt about it but, on alot more as well. I thought about friends I once considered as close as family, that I haven’t…

And experiencing, enduring, and outgrowing, before ultimately moving past as many as possible until we’ve found the most fitting for us personally, is all any of us are trying to do. — For starters, I say all of this without judgment, and certainly without the guise of self righteousness or a false sense of superiority, over anyone at all let alone anyone reading this or anything else I’ve ever written or will, pulled over my eyes. I may be blind to a…

It isn’t all about the loss of life, it’s also about reflecting on invaluable memories and lessons learned as well. — Sure, the headline would’ve caught more eyes had I replaced “Deceased Loved One" with “Dead Brother", which was the initial title that came to me. However, dead brother, not only feels unnecessarily harsh and blunt, but in this case it would be semi-misleading being today is my deceased cousin’s birthday.

I’ve lived with them, around them, endured my own and others as well as tried to treat them, by any means necessary, my entire life. — Warning: I will be divulging deeply personal information and family experiences in this piece. If you’re related to me, and have a hard time processing and taking in hard facts and truths, skip this one. Or don’t. Maybe try facing reality as it is, rather than how we all wish…

We can let it all eat away at us, making us miserable until it literally kills us, or we can find the humor in even our most horrible days and our hardest of hardships. — I’ve always enjoyed irony. The thicker the better. I like to be able to taste it when I enter a room and it’s even better if the people in that room either genuinely fail to see it or clearly do but insist on pretending the thousand pound elephant in said…

Because, we need more of that in the world and you should get used to people doing so. — When I say I’m going to say some things you won’t like, I mean possibly in this post, personal essay, open letter or whatever your little heart desires to call this when I’m done writing it. But also, in general. Because I write for a living (barely). I express thoughts…

I promise, not everyone you love is rooting for you, thankfully everyone who truly loves you is. — Sometimes you only have three choices in who you become to the people around you, depending on who you and those people are. But regardless, our choices are often as follows. You stay the same, never evolving. You're doing the same thing on your 35th birthday that you did on…

I say that with gratitude and as much grace as possible, not arrogance and certainly not pride. — Let’s see, where do I start. Where do I or we ever start? About a year ago I was half managing a Dollar store part time, hating everything about it and everything else around it in my life as well, and it all eventually turned to shit as it so…