Category: Stories
Personal narrative — growing up, identity, life lessons, and the moments that shaped how I see the world.
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When You Stop Learning, You Start Dying
My Aunt Georgie lived sharp until the very end, and watching her taught me that staying mentally active…
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Dad Taught Me How to Prepare
My father wasn’t the kind of man who said ‘I love you’ out loud, but he spent every…
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The Double Load
My ESL and Spanish-first students aren’t just learning design. They’re learning design through a second language, and we’re…
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The Fax Man
I was doing content marketing in 1991, before Seth Godin named it. Five hundred faxes a month, three…
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Somewhere Between Mile Three and Mile Six
I’ve been practicing self-hypnosis since high school, and the treadmill is where it all comes together now. Ninety…
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The God I Went Looking For
I call myself a Christian, but I didn’t get there by default. I had to explore every possibility…
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The Place That Broke and Built Me
Military school gave me my teaching model, my honor code, and my understanding that caring about the whole…
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What Was Driving You Before
I spent the first half of my life chasing what everyone said success looked like, and the second…
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The Doodler
I spent most of my childhood being told to stop doing the one thing that actually helped me…
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The Person in the Mirror
I’ve spent a lot of years trying to outrun versions of myself I didn’t want to look at,…