Don't Get to Keep Good Things
On grief, capacity and regulation. The stories that pain tells when control slips.
Grief You Can't Show Up For
What the hell are we supposed to do with that?
It Comes Due Either Way
Accumulation, Inevitability, and the Cost of Never Being on the List
Brothers, Sisters
What Held Us Together, a Gen X story
Defended
The gap between knowing you're safe and letting it land.
And It Stoned Me
Fifty years finding out what it actually meant.
Competence Mask
When capability becomes the only safe way to exist.
The Clearing
Some years the fog takes it. That year it didn't.
Dead Reckoning
The gauges don't redline. They just stop meaning anything. Outside is where I learned to read them again.