Writing
Sep 8, 2025
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4 min read
The calendar marks days, but healing requires choice. In the space time creates, we learn to build ourselves anew.
Sep 2, 2025
5 min read
The weight of what happened in Afghanistan lives in the stories I can't tell. Twenty years later, I'm learning that some truths are too heavy for words, too sacred for anything but silence.
Aug 26, 2025
There are words you write when you think you're dying, stained with the dirt and blood of the moment you thought was your last. Sometimes you live to frame them.
Jul 29, 2025
13 min read
The Kid from Queens
Jul 23, 2025
7 min read
After decades of carrying our stories in isolation, a hotel reunion taught us we were never as alone as we thought. Some families are forged in fire and proven unbreakable by time.
Jul 20, 2025
6 min read
Through notebooks filled with truth, I discovered that the heaviest burdens grow lighter when we give them voice on paper
Jul 15, 2025
Where silence heals instead of threatens, and peace becomes possible again.
Jul 8, 2025
How I learned to live with the weight of taking a life at knife-point. Twenty-three years later, the healing continues.
Jun 27, 2025
The bonds forged in combat resist translation to civilian life, leaving veterans caught between two worlds that speak different languages of connection. Even with therapy and genuine effort to open up, some experiences remain too profound and terrible to bridge the gap between those who were there and those who cannot imagine.
Jun 9, 2025
A meditation on finding meaning in the aftermath of trauma and the daily choice between letting pain destroy you or letting it forge you into something stronger.