[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] I have a long word doc that contains bits of poems and stories and ideas. Sometimes, right as I'm falling asl...

"What did you do that was so bad?" he asks. "I bought appetite suppressants," I answer, almost proudly. I know I just wasted money on apple

I was too weird for him, because when I asked him if we were dating, he said, "Why?" When he could have said, "Why certainly, darling" or "W

Eating disorders are illnesses that cause serious disturbances to one's diet. These include anorexia, characterized by extreme food restrict

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] "You seem emotionally unavailable," I said. "You're not the first person to tell me that," he replied, "I know...

We're somewhere in week 5? 6? 100? of quarantine and I've done all the things. I painted a few canvasses. I discarded all my useless shit. I color coordinate...

Back in college, I used to eat lunch alone in my dorm room, if I decided to eat at all. That way, no one could tell me I was eating too much or not enough. N...

During an especially weird time of my life, I printed this quote onto pastel pink paper and taped it to my bathroom mirror. I wanted so badly to believe it w...

There is a man who lives in the apartment across from mine who, for the past twelve days at least, sits inside and plays video games incessantly. I wake up e...

We're only about a week into COVID-19 inspired isolation, and many of us are feeling verklempt. While we are necessarily isolated from each other, those of u...

“What’s wrong, hun?” asked a lady who works in my building. It was a Monday morning and I had just parked my Prius, extracted my belongings, and was schleppi...

Lust is not love. Lust can feel great though, and provide a temporary dopamine rush. It can make you feel sexy and admired and wanted. But t

The other day, my therapist told me I'm, "self-aware to a fault." This was not a compliment. He was concerned that I shirk my own needs in order to meet the ...

I've been running a long time (since I was 12), and I recently flipped the annual life page to number 27, which means I've been an active participant in the ...

Last Saturday, I ran a 100-kilometer trail race in Malibu, CA called Sean O'Brian. For those of you who are metrically-challenged, 100 kilometers is about 62...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] “Have you heard about attachment styles?” my therapist asks, interjecting one of my signature rants about how...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] Lot's of hyphens in that title, huh? I'm turning 27 today, somewhere around 9:30 p.m. My birthday is also my ...

This post, like last Thursday's, was inspired by an old(er) man on Facebook. Keep the ideas coming, fellas. For those of you who didn't read my last blog, I w...

The other day, I posted the below photo and poem on Facebook and Instagram. I'd like to point out right off the bat, that this poem is decidedly not that sad...

I was 22 when I was first approached by a multi-level marketing (MLM) company that shall remain unnamed. The opportunity was presented as such: work part-tim...