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After Dolly’s passing I watched a reel by Ben Rector commenting on how he had been on the golf course and a wealthy man also playing commented to him about Dolly’s passing and they shared in the sadness. Awhile later Ben had left the golf course and stopped at a mini mart. The woman behind

Standing on stage, hands sweating, voice shaking: this is fear. But it’s also brave. I’ve taken the stage many times in my life, but it wasn’t until I figured out my ‘why’ that it began to get easier. Every day you (the collective you: you, me, them, etc. Not singling you out. Though this is

Have you ever considered the word ‘muse’? And no, I don’t mean the English rock band, though they have some bangers. I mean the word itself. Muse is defined by Google as “a source of creative inspiration, or the act of thinking deeply and reflectively.” Though used in separate contexts, the two appear inextricably linked

It’s hard to be friends with an honest journalist. Each conversation, filled with questions. Each lunch date, an interview.  It’s hard to be friends with an honest journalist because the interest isn’t surface level.  Sometimes it feels like they’re venturing too far but there are articles on stars and those are just a start.  The

I watched Project Hail Mary. Five stars. The premise involves a brilliant, but reluctant hero who becomes an integral part of solving an unexplainable cosmic anomaly threatening to eat the sun, and in turn, destroy humanity.  Takeaways: the sun is such a strange idea. Here is this large, ethereal burning mass floating in a distant

Sometimes my world feels small, so small that it’s somehow swallowed up in the grandness of existence. I exist in this state of limbo between meaning-making and coexisting with the world. I’ve never been “normal.” Or maybe it’s normal to think one isn’t normal. Many times, I’ve wondered if there is a place for me