To share a thought is to allow yourself to be vulnerable. Because once you’ve decided as Pandora once did to lift the lid, what’s unveiled could be overwhelmingly haunting and terrifying. And if you’re not considerate and thoughtful and obedient, well… it could very well be the death of you. …

In high school we used to joke around about the Asian Invasion taking place in Milpitas. It’s a relatively small town, just north of San Jose, here in California. …

It has surely rained before. Quite a few times actually, in the span of years defined by some as a lifetime. But it’s a concept so abstract these days, so difficult to measure, as if we’re living in some other world. If you’re anything like me, you’ve resorted to memories…

a series on fulfilling a purpose — verse three, so there i was She was loud and obnoxious, emotional and legitimately out of control. Eleven going on twenty-five, and as fate would have it, assigned to me. Her name was Priscilla, and it was my first day at Glenwood Elementary School. I’m not sure whether it was…

a series on fulfilling a purpose — verse two, back in the day Before we continue on, it’s worth noting I’ve been on this path for a while now. Though the road has never been easy. On a Thursday evening, two months after my college graduation, my father said some things a son should never hear. This…

a series on fulfilling a purpose — verse one, the intro Every so often his eyelids would flicker, and slightly open, before collapsing under the weight of pure exhaustion. We were deep into it, and the mental anguish, the mind-numbing boredom was just too much. We tried everything those first few days. Unhealthy amounts of Mountain Dew…

Lately, it’s become apparent that I’m always wishing for things to change. It’s ingrained in my psyche, this constant, consuming need. It’s frustrating and confusing, and I wish it weren’t so. As far as I can tell, it started early in life, in the evenings on our scraggly carpet, where…

a series on the pursuit of happiness — I understand now, that a pursuit of happiness is one that never ends. And Then Nevada Finally in Vegas, beyond the shadows of decadence and wildly lavish dreams, there was light, and a sense that perhaps someone was watching from above. It wasn’t where we’d imagined ourselves to be. …

a series on the pursuit of happiness — Long before I’d met Ella in Birmingham, I was already fighting for her, and by her side. First Pensacola A messenger broke my heart one day, and in one fell swoop, while removing all semblance of spirituality, demolished everything I thought was good in this world. …