Beautiful Lies
This is where it begins, a story of child abuse, toxic love, and the survival mechanism that worked: turning maladaptive daydreaming into a life worth romanticizing.
Some kids dreamed about prom. I dreamed
Memoirs
Personal essays about survival, abuse, reinvention, and figuring out a life that makes sense afterward. These aren’t polished success stories by any stretch... they’re raw, candid, and often uncomfortable. If you’ve ever had to rebuild from scratch, you might find something familiar here.
Enough
An essay about choosing boundaries over approval, the painful truth of estrangement, and what it really means to be a father in the face of betrayal.
Before we get started, let’s just
Sad Woman, Happy Coffee
First, the coffee maker died.
Then the replacement died.
Then the replacement’s replacement died.
Then I found myself halfway inside a dumpster bin at dawn, in pajamas, trying to locate a broken
What No One Tells You About Happily Ever After
An honest look at real love after trauma, of how marriage became less about perfection and more about daily choice.
The night we were supposed to go to that concert, I couldn'
The Best Thing I Never Got
What if the promotion you didn’t get was actually your biggest win? This is the story of a career rejection turned opportunity; the moment a 'no' shoved me out of