How do you live after you've experienced death? Whenever someone close to you dies, you get this hit of mortality that you can’t unknow. Not the “live every day like it’s your last” version. The real one. The kind that sits quietly in your chest and whispers, this can all disappear. We all logically know death is part of life. Everything dies. People say that like it’s comforting. Like repeating it makes it softer. But until it happens up close, until it’s your parent, your person, it still...

Where I’ve Been Lately I haven’t been able to write for months. Not because I didn’t have thoughts, but because the effort it took to turn them into sentences felt like more than I had. Every time I tried to sit down and write, my brain felt foggy and heavy. I would lay in bed at night, wide awake with so much running through my mind, but the thought of trying to string it all together just felt impossible. I kept telling myself I’d come back to it when things settled down, but they didn’t....

Today marks two years of being sober. Two whole years without alcohol. Some days it feels like forever. Other days, like I just started....