• When I met the life coach, who would ultimately claim to be my “teacher,” in 2008, he offered me spiritual and metaphysical answers for every confusion, every fear, every doubt and every hurt I had ever experienced. He told me grand stories of his life and all the trials he had traversed. I learned that…

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  • In Search of Safety, Pt 2

    Between the ages of 9 and 18, I saw so many unusual things, interacted with people from almost every walk of life and coped with innumerable harrowing situations. Like the time my family was doing a Sunday morning outreach at the homeless shelter in downtown Savannah, right after we moved there… I was 13 years…

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  • In Search of Safety, Pt 1

    [In writing this series, I quickly discovered that this issue is at the very heart of how and why I ended up in the positions, and the relationships, of my adulthood. In my attempt to unravel, understand and accept how all of it happened, Safety is a primary key.] In the Beginning… All I wanted…

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  • Welcome to The Boat

    A glimpse into the early days and conditions of my evangelical indoctrination.

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  • To my dear readers and those who may find themselves on this site: I wanted to offer you a little bit of insight and perspective on the current intention behind this blog and the posts that you will see moving forward at this time. I restarted this blog in 2022 with some sporadic writings interspersed…

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  • The Thing About Love

    In the Spring of 2006, I packed up my car, gave my roommates a final farewell, and headed down the road. I wasn’t sure exactly where I was going or where I would live next, but I knew I had to leave where I was. Life seemed to have run its course under my present…

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  • The Season of Change

    “It’s been a long time…I shouldn’t’ve left you…without a dope beat to step to, step to…”~Timbaland Warning: Stream of Consciousness Below In my silence, I am thinking….I am working….it is a long and tedious process and consumes every moment of every day…most of the time. And then suddenly, one day, I wake up and here…

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  • To the Well Wishers…

    I would just like to say, Thank you. Your words of support and encouragement are so deeply appreciated. When it is difficult to find words for this process, for what I am experiencing and for what those have experienced who have gone before me, your encouragement is what keeps bringing me back here to try.…

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  • Lessons

    For a long time I have ascribed to the belief that this life is about lessons. And indeed, the lessons are here if/when we choose to learn them. I decided 14 years ago that I wanted to approach and “tackle” those lessons consciously. Well…I kind of did. They just weren’t always what I thought at…

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  • Letting It Burn

    Rage is a powerful emotion. It is an emotion, and state of being, that I have witnessed in others quite a bit. But it is a fire that I have never allowed to burn within me. It has terrified me. I am beginning to understand why… Like fire, rage is consuming. Out of control, the…

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