The Door Was There
A blunt personal essay about suicide as a thought, abandonment, the damage of pushing love away, and alcohol as the cost of not confronting older wounds.
Writing
Essays, journal pieces, and other work
Afraid of the Dark
A personal essay about PTSD, sleeplessness, loneliness, and the fear that comes when night strips away the illusion of control.
Lost Into Silence
A personal essay on grief, domestic life, silence, and the sorrow that remains when love has nowhere to go.
A Grave Mistake
A personal essay about becoming an empty nester young, grieving a house that once held fatherhood, and feeling more isolated after moving to Coral Gables.
Some Lives Sound Made Up
A first-date story about family tragedy, disbelief, foster care paperwork, and the humiliation of having to prove your own life.
What My Brother Took With Him
A personal essay about a brother's suicide, the future it stole, and the fear of what grief can do to the living.
Forced Introspection
A memoir moving between adult collapse and childhood terror, with real coordinates linked to place.
To the Boy Who Learned to Be Strong Too Early
A love letter to the inner child who learned to be strong too early, and to the man now allowed to let people in, receive love, and come home to himself.
Could It Really Be You?
A letter written in preparation for dating.
The Boy Wanted to Camp
A man drives away from a final fight, crosses storms and elevation, and discovers that sobriety was only the beginning of learning how to protect the boy inside him.