Essays
Writing about what we’ve been given, what matters, and what is ours to carry.
Join me for thoughtful essays and occasional reflections on work, family, faith, ambition, responsibility, contribution, and the questions that emerge when we pay closer attention to the lives we’re already living.
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What You'll Find Here
This isn’t writing to help you do more.
It’s writing to help you see more clearly.
Recent Essays
Starting With Love
What if becoming more patient isn’t about fixing my impatience, but remembering what I’m trying to practice in the first place?
The Stories We Tell About Ourselves
Why the identities that help us make sense of ourselves can quietly become the very stories that keep us from meaningful work.
The Lives We Plan and the Lives That Form Us
We spend so much time imagining who we’re supposed to become that we may miss how our lives are already forming us.
A Different Currency
Somewhere along the way, it becomes difficult to tell what we value from what we’ve been taught to value.
Before We Know What It Means
A reflection on marriage, memory, and what happens when we look back at the moments that shaped a life before we knew what they would mean.
What Ordinary Life Reveals About Meaningful Work
A personal reflection on work, aging, family, and the quiet realizations that meaningful work begins with ordinary life.
The Relationships That Form Us
Not every relationship is meant to last. Perhaps the better question isn't whether it endured, but what it formed within us.
What We Carry Forward
Just because a season forms us doesn't mean it's ours to continue carrying.
The Weight of Unfinished Stories
Why some responsibilities continue long after they should.
Am I Allowed?
Why we readily recognize potential in others while discounting what we've already been given.
The Things That Wait
When life reminds us that not everything deserves the same level of priority.
I Wasn’t Quitting. I Was Finally Listening.
The difference between carrying everything and stewarding what matters.
When Things Work... But Still Feel Off
There’s nothing wrong, which is why you can’t explain why it isn’t right.
The Identities We Outgrow
The tension between capability and our sense of self.
You're Not Unclear. You're Just Deferring.
The slow erosion of self-trust disguised as due diligence.
What have you been given? What matters? What is yours to carry?
Writing, research, and work exploring how we faithfully inhabit the lives we’ve been given.
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