Don't Get to Keep Good Things
On grief, capacity and regulation. The stories that pain tells when control slips.
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
Competence Mask
When capability becomes the only safe way to exist.
Dead Reckoning
The gauges don't redline. They just stop meaning anything. Outside is where I learned to read them again.
Close Enough to Be In Them
The response was real. Thirty years to see where it came from.
Archeology of Worth
You don't build it. You uncover it.
Indispensable, Undeniable
Purpose, Trauma, and the Cost of Hyper-competence