Personal writing
The parts we usually hide.
Essays about mental health, accountability, love, and what it takes to look honestly at the distance between appearances and experience.
Mental health & accountability
High-Functioning Depression
A candid personal reflection on functioning in public, falling apart in private, accepting responsibility, and learning to ask for help.
Love & expectations
The Part After Falling in Love
A reflection on what romantic comedies leave out: the difficult, imperfect work that begins after two people fall in love.
Deployment & belonging
The Cool Crowd Followed Me to Qatar
A reflection on deployment, belonging, and realizing that the need for approval can follow you farther than the people you blame.
Book in progress
Fat Loser
Fat Loser is a memoir in progress with a double meaning. I was overweight and living with habits that made me feel like a loser. I lost the weight, but the harder work has been losing the habits, excuses, addictions, and need for approval that kept me stuck. The book is about both kinds of loss. The manuscript is still being written and is not available to read yet.
Manuscript in progress