Category: Random Musings
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The Gordian knot of healthcare.
What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind? For most of my adult life, I supported the idea of free healthcare. It sounded humane — civilized, even. No one should go broke because they got sick, right? I still believe that in principle. But after living under a socialized medical system for…
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Progress towards a goal I’m terrified of reaching.
What’s your #1 priority tomorrow? Lately, I’ve been trying to get better about actually sharing my work instead of holding onto it until it’s “perfect.” I’ve realized that perfectionism can be a form of self-sabotage — if I never let my thoughts and ideas out into the world, they stay trapped in my head, and…
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“The More We Value Things Outside of Our Control the Less Control We Have.”
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? The Best Advice I’ve Ever Received The best piece of advice I’ve ever received isn’t flashy or complicated—it’s the core tenet of Stoicism: focus your energy on the things you can actually affect. It sounds simple, almost obvious. Yet in practice, it’s anything but. We spend…
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Not 27 anymore.
I turn 40 this morning, and honestly—it feels surreal. For so long, I’ve been joking that I was 27. I said it so often I’d sometimes forget my real age. But here I am, four decades in, and it feels different. Not in a bad way—just in a way that makes me stop and really…
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Why I write
I was never the type who loved writing in school. Essays felt stiff. Book reports were a chore. But even back then, I was writing—just not the kind they asked for. I wrote lyrics. Rhymes scribbled in spiral notebooks, verses built in my head while walking alone, staring at ceilings, or laying in the dark.…
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Fighting for Routine: Discipline in the Middle of Recovery
Recovery Doesn’t Come With a Roadmap Recovery doesn’t come with a roadmap—especially when the body you’re trying to reclaim doesn’t move the same way it used to. After my spinal fusion, I wanted nothing more than to get back to rolling, lifting, and running—back to what once made me feel strong. But I knew I…
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The rebel, the pervert, the gentleman and the philosopher.
How would you describe yourself to someone? Well, I’ve got a shirt that does a pretty damn good job: Gentleman. Philosopher. Pervert. Rebel. I’m a gentleman thanks to my mom. She raised me solo in the ’90s, doing her best to keep me grounded while juggling everything life threw her way—some job changes, a few…
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Shatter assumptions
Throughout my life, people have made assumptions about me. Some were off-base, reflections of their own projections. Others? I can’t deny—I planted them myself, deliberately, with a kind of quiet calculation. There’s something undeniably powerful in shaping the narrative before others can write it for you. In this way, I’ve used misdirection not unlike a…
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Life after door kicking. 