integration

between optimism and cynicism

Rose-colored glasses force a happy ending. Greyscale glasses expect the worst. Both disconnect you from reality. What I found instead gave me more power over my life, not less, but it required letting go of the one thing I thought gave me control.

the freedom of constraint

I have a million ideas and want to pursue them all... and that's my biggest problem. For years, I thought keeping all my options open was freedom, but it turns out, refusing to choose hasn't been keeping me free; it's been keeping me trapped.

different places, different faces

I spent the first 34 years of my life in Nebraska. I lived in the small capital city of Lincoln, which was comprised largely of families that had either lived there for generations

love affair with life

I’m having a love affair with my life. It’s the romance I always sought in another, which never failed to leave me feeling hollow like a mirage of something real. Life

walls of conclusion

I do my best to cozy down into a ‘normal’ life situation...  Ya know, with love and cookies, and consistent bedtimes.  Date nights and planning.  Steady jobs with paychecks and insurance and stuff.