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I am one of those individuals that likes to write out “to do” lists for myself to keep organized, prioritized, and accountable. Many psychologists strongly believe that people are more likely to [...]

The world will bloody your knuckles without even trying. If you cry in front of the women you love, they will still love you. Strong does not mean: tall loud angry. Strong means swallowing the [...]

I am made of ancient oak trees of lions and tigers and spare tires old rubber gathering older dust that has spent its whole life floating through fingertips and vacuums I am made of spiderwebs, [...]

I’ve been asked on more than one occasion if poetry is a means of escape or expression. My answer is always the same: why does it have to be one or the other? I’ve used poetry to simultaneously [...]

I’ve learned to attribute many of the good outcomes in my life to luck. Of course, it’s some luck and mostly hard work, but I’ve learned as a working class college student at an elite school, [...]