Creative Nonfiction – Riffs on the Reg

In Sickness and In Health

Last week, I got sick, breaking my 5-year health streak. But being sick allowed me to realize how much I have to be thankful for!

Lucky Stars

As a teen, I went through a phase where I folded hundreds of lucky stars. Years later, I have never been able to admire my artwork the way I see my lucky stars.

I was a child with Big Feelings. In a home where expressed emotions were dismissed or denied, I found socially acceptable solace in literature. I could dive head-first into the deepest depression or soar in the heights of happiness alongside each protagonist. Each page of prose transported me to worlds where I could imagine expressingContinue reading “Ocean of Emotion”

The Value of Dropping the Ball (or Brush)

Whether you play farming sims or not: What could you do if you stopped brushing your 62 monsters everyday?

There’s Never Enough Time

There will never be enough time in a day to do all the things we have on our to-do lists. Somehow we always find things we’re supposed to do, but what if we just… didn’t?

Who Even Am I?

From time to time throughout my adulthood, I have had moments of crisis where I wondered what the hell I was doing with my life. When this has happened, it has always centered around my choice of career—never any of my personal life choices (though in all honesty, I probably should have questioned more ofContinue reading “Who Even Am I?”