Lies

“Doesn’t that sound like me?” My best friend Sarah looked up from her phone in between our monotonous task of packing my entire apartment into boxes. She was reading me the results from one of [...]

I found myself in a scene straight out of the cliché teenager flick Mean Girls. In the movie, it was a Halloween house party: all the girls were dressed minimally in what were supposed to be [...]

I pushed open the heavy door from the girl’s locker room and slid my back against the wall to sit on the floor. I was in high school and had just finished a tough cross country practice. I [...]

My dog barks at shoe polish. You read that right. He growls and barks and his hair stands up when he sees shoe polish. A few months ago, I was cleaning a closet in our apartment and sorting [...]

I’m the worst flyer in the world. I’m the one on the airplane that you see squeezing the armrests in my seat, the one hiding under a baseball cap, turning pale. Since 2010, I’ve [...]

Why are you doing this? Out of emotion? Because of something in the past? Because you don’t like your present state? What makes you want to do this?   When we are covered in anger, or [...]

Part of depression is not being willing to forgive. It may be someone who hurt you that you are unwilling to forgive. Maybe you did something and aren’t willing to forgive yourself. But it [...]

“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There’s no one alive who is you-er than you.” – Dr. Seuss I love this quote because it reeks of individuality. And it’s so true, there’s nobody in [...]

Do we really want to get well? Do you really want to overcome an addiction? Isn’t it so much easier to live with it than to spend all this time fighting it? The way I hear it played out by [...]

I’ve thought since I was a kid that I wasn’t good enough. This spoken word poem is about my story and struggle with inadequacy.