I've been studying writing and literary fiction at the University of Washington for the last two years. I've learned oodles about the craft of writing and story telling and I love it so. It makes my brain hurt and my heart soar and my soul...
That road. The one that winds and dips and turns through the trees and comes to a weird, Y-shaped intersection. The one we used to drive down after school in our hand-me-down cars listening to The Cranberries with the windows down. I love that road.
And...
I read somewhere that we are all addicts to whatever releases a hit of dopamine to our brains.
Food and sex are big dopamine triggers because evolutionarily speaking, we need to eat and procreate. We are engineered to derive pleasure from these things. Everyone has heard...
I'm adrift right now, and I know it. It's been almost three months since I filed for divorce and the loneliness has begun to wrap around me like a wet, dense fog.
During the day, I have no shortage of things to do. I have two...
I've been thinking a lot about time. I suppose fall does that to me. With all the leaves falling and the ground decaying under my feet. It's Mother Nature's most in-your-face reminder that time marches on, things change, release, fall away. And I suppose I...