
Winning's Messy
Monday. 8:12. Eyes open. Hop up, don't think about the minutes lost to snooze. I haven't the time for a shower, but I'll make time to get...
Monday. 8:12. Eyes open. Hop up, don't think about the minutes lost to snooze. I haven't the time for a shower, but I'll make time to get...
Twenty-two months in. The same old toxic cocktail of disease, politics, and false hope has landed my class and I back in a familiar state...
Moving forward is valued, encouraged, and applauded. To me, what our fifth-gear culture views as a win-win is actually a double-edged...
It was blustery and bright. I leaned out over the balustrade and peered up from my balcony as an airline jet thundered close above, the...
On the floor of my room. I stared up at the line drawing on my angled attic wall. The drawing was dimly lit by scant traces of morning...
It’s a sunny Tuesday morning in April. The beauty of the weather, lengthening days, and awakening wildlife has been dampened by the onset...
Shafts of weak March morning light crept through my draughty window and gently illuminated my bedroom floor. I sat in my old...
Imagine yourself as two people. One is the tangible you: the one who gets up, eats, speaks, and works through the day. The person that...
Rural Northern Ontario, 2016. As I stepped into the dark, dingy, and smelly confines of the boys change room, my heart rate quickened....
We have all heard the 'glass half full' adage, but it has been repeated so many times, it's easy to forget how crucial a sense of...
Let me read this post to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Easg7-lJk I awoke that Sunday morning abruptly with a psychological...
I stared at the blank word document, the pulsating cursor taunting me with its rhythmic disappearance. In one thousand characters or...
June. I emerged from my seventeen year-old toyota echo, drenched in sweat after a long commute without air conditioning. Unlocking and...
When we are young, we look in a forward-facing direction. We seek education, occupations, and capital, all in the service of an imagined...
My pathology exam, one-hundred and forty questions long, with an emphasis on whole-semester integration, was three days away....