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On Bitterness

This past week I had to get out of my head.

You know the feeling.

God moved some special things in my soul (churchese for f*cked with my sense of purpose and identity) and I needed to walk in the…

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I Envy the Lilies

It’s late.

Seriously it’s almost 1 in the morning, but I’ve been in restaurants for the last 6 years and my body clock is, how you say, unusual.

At night I find that in the same way a dog circles…

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Change and Challenge

I’m sitting in my kitchen writing next to my roommate in Nashville. He’s a hard-working accountant, and I’m a broke musician who pretends to work. I’ve only been here for two months but we’ve become fast friends, jamming Mumford and…

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Providence and Pain

There’s a long list of things that I wish I would have accomplished by 25.

No. That’s not an encouraging way to start off this train of thought.

Starting over.

Okay, but how am I supposed to be grateful when…

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Courage, dear heart.

Louisiana gets foggy in the early morning, and a little cooler.

Still hot, just a little harder to see.

Although it does call to mind foggy harbors: ships berthing at the docks champing at the seafoam that rocks them slowly…

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