We — We are the damned. We are the downtrodden. We are the debased detritus designated by dictatorial despots to become those that dwell in the dark. That decay. That die within the dingy depths of their depravity and our despair. Despite our deep-seated desire to be docile, it is…

Note that I said “pernicious loneliness” and not “perniciousness of being alone,” the distinction between loneliness and being alone is of utmost import.

I have been a Lyft driver in Sacramento off an on since February 2017. I will continue to drive for Lyft here until August, when I move into my college housing to finish my undergrad. …

As humans, we place special emphasis on our friendships. We tend to hold our dearest friends closer than blood family, closer than our spouses, closer than our kin. …

Quick disclaimer: I do not claim to know what face depression wears in your life, or how often it peers out from behind your Oz-crafted curtains, spreading it’s lies and causing no end of trouble, but I do claim to know the many faces of depression in my own life…

When a married person speaks of separation from a significant other, the connotation is usually assumed to be both physical and emotional. The falling out of love, or the realization of never having been in love in the first place, become the catalysts for the dissolution of a marriage or…

I wrote a lot just after my father’s death in 1991. By the time I was in my early 20’s, I had multiple 5-subject 5 Star notebooks of my writing — emotionally charged and raw, but from a literary standpoint, none of it was very good. When I finally moved…

There are a great many things I am just now, at 43 years old, beginning to learn about myself — about my desires, about my heart, about my skills and abilities. The one thing I am most eager to learn about is how adolescent everything seems and feels in this…