There’s something quietly profound about how musical memories become the soundtracks of our lives. I received a vintage kit from my dad, that he purchased around 1991. And it’s still pumping, still alive with the hum of shared memories. He…
You know the toxic lie of “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger” That line is garbage. It’s not motivation, it’s an additional dull knife, slipped in between the already-bleeding ribs. Yeah, let’s stick in one more: “What doesn’t kill…
“How do you do that?” Brian gestured toward my shaved head. “I’m decrypting this with the public key the vendors sent us.” “No, I mean, how do you shave your head?” Brian was losing hair at an exponential rate. The…
When the wife of a guy from the infrastructure team committed suicide, the IT Department rallied around their colleague. On the day of the funeral, the IT Department shut down. No explanations. No exceptions. It was somber, but remarkable in…
“God doesn’t give you more than you can handle.” I’ve heard that many times. It’s venomous. It’s a sugar-coated and harmful lie. Some who suffer even believe it, cling to it, and therein lies the tragedy. This is where spiritually…
Imagine sneezing, and splattering someone with your phlegm, intentionally. That image lives within the realm of cringe. You wouldn’t even walk over to the couple at the far end of the restaurant, and take a deep pull from your Lucky…
Matted blonde hair was still damp from the drizzle earlier. Her partner once approached me when I purchased a burger, and I got two more for them. Maybe she didn’t recognize me, or rather adhered to some arbitrary code of…
Don’t show your monsters and don’t explain them. Some creators in the horror genre live by those rules. Well, yeah, at some point in the movie you have to show something, but initially it makes sense to generate tension. Remember how…
Hope is an illusion, mostly. It isn’t fabricated, and packaged in neat little bite-sized nibbles, floating around for consumption. Hey Joe, didn’t you get retrenched last week? Quick, grab that purple one, it’s flying your way, it includes hope for…
I watched a live video of a village being destroyed. How do I respond to tragedy, and to the scary things I witness daily? How do I handle it? This question becomes universal, even if you never articulate it in…