These last couple years have been a bit traumatic, capped off by the last couple months feeling like all the chakras in my body have...

I am incapable of asking for help in a world that demands I be strong enough to be fine without it. This year has been so hard for so...

We had Papa Bear cremated, but we wanted to say goodbye to his body beforehand, so we had a little viewing, which turned into a number of...

….. it had to be the fifth of November. We had just spent a week in Nebraska visiting my wife’s family, in this year where I have...

To generalize the way people choose to live their lives, there are two basic types of people in the world (in that cliché way): those who...

I have obviously taken a big step back from all of this, but am so very grateful that the seed planted in Nadia grew into her beautiful...

I need to tell you something about this day in mid-January: the day I went out to the place where they were taken, I didn't know I would...

Our house from here... The journey of beautiful places I've been putting off since I was 12 continues. This week, the notorious South...

“The bear’s message for modern people is to remind them of their roots, which they are beginning to long to understand but have nearly...

More than the work, I have always appreciated the beautiful souls that I've found on this journey. Ana wrote a little thing the other...

One more beautiful day with my amazing little family, wondering how I got here, yet enjoying every little moment. It is nice to finally...

... and the view of our little town, nestled in the San Jacinto Mountains, from up there. While this is a nice general view of this...

I have been praised for my creative relentlessness, but it exists to such a fault that I don’t really know how to interact with people on...

This is way outside my character, but I’ve seemed to be drifting more and more in that direction for over a year in search of my...

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” ~ Sophocles … and a father to love. I am one to see the current state of affairs...

So I started this wanting to write some rambling post about my complicated relationship with other women and the idea of womanhood...

If change were easy, everyone would simply do it. It is the exact opposite. It is ugly and messy, like a Joshua Tree bathroom in July; it...

The beauty and the pain of it all; the beauty of the pain, and the pain in the beauty. When all the complexities of life swirl into a...

I certainly went into 2019 like a lion, in an attempt to make the most of another year, but the Universe had another path for me; a much...

Narratives. We all have one or multiple. These belief systems we create for ourselves spun from societal constructs and trauma meant to...