“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” About midway through my work shift on Sunday, a feeling started to come over me. A very disturbing feeling started to wash over me. When I’m bored at work, I’ll mindlessly scroll social media on my phone. And trust…

“How many?” The hostess at the diner asks me. “I’m waiting on a second.” The hostess leads me to an isolated booth in the back of the restaurant. She offers me coffee and I accept. Nervously I look at my watch. I’ve been waiting for this reunion for 13 years…

You’ve been knocked down, kicked out, and dragged through the mud. Your life is in shambles! You have to strip your life down to the bare wood and rebuild from scratch. You rebuild your life by simply getting back to basics! …

Dear little Ryan, 2021 has been such a fun and important year for us. We went to a live baseball game for the first time in over ten years. That game was a Braves game — that was the first time in close to probably 20 years. We went to…

2021…my God what a year! You know, I’m exhausted. I’m absolutely exhausted. I feel like the progress I started to build during 2020 helped me to start digging out of the personal hole I dug for myself starting in 2018. …

Yesterday was one of the strangest days of my life. And I wanted to share with y’all the lesson I learned in all of it. And it’s a pretty important lesson. Wednesday was one of the strangest days I’ve experienced in a long time. …

I forget the time frame we were in. It was probably in the mid-late 2000s — maybe 2008. At the time I lived in Ashford, Alabama — right outside Dothan. I got in my car one Saturday and headed up to Montgomery to spend the weekend with Alan. …

CW/TW I’m sitting here in the break room at Best Buy. I’m drinking coffee, and I’m writing this post. By all rights, I should be on a plane this morning. I should be on a plane to Chicago to watch a dear friend get married on Sunday. I’ve never been…

Pete and I find ourselves having an absolutely glorious walk on the powder white sands of Port Saint Joe, Florida. It’s a stunning late summer day, not too hot. Pete doesn’t even have his tongue out. There’s nobody out right now. …