There are days when I need to listen to pop punk. It can serve as a constant reminder of my roots as an overly serious teenager. Ironic, considering most pop punk is about being immature, stupid, and doing things I never did. There are gems. Songs with enough emotional weight they crawl inside my soul […]
It’s no lie. I’ve pretty much always been a fat kid. Since third grade or so, at the very latest. I don’t have many memories of a time when I wasn’t fat. Most of the pictures of me from before I was super fat actually look more like pictures of my little brother. It has […]
Early in this blog’s history, I wrote a series of posts declaring my self-improvement intentions. Though I haven’t always been moving in the right direction, I have managed to keep one foot in front of the other. Now, a mere four years, six months, and twenty-six days later, I’ve decided it is time for me to […]
I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around how much has happened this year. It’s been just… a big year, full of change. I want to say that it’s all been bunnies and lollipops, but that would be a lie. There has been a lot of bad this year, too. But, I’m not going to […]
So, people are always talking about things like, “Do what’s in your heart,” and “the heart wants what the heart wants.” Want to know some hard truths? The heart is a devious, lying sack of crap. Partially because it’s a fickle bitch that doesn’t actually know what the hell it wants, and partially because it […]
They made me draw that house, tree, and person probably a dozen times over the years. Always followed by the stupid questions that I knew they were using to judge me. “Why are there locks on the windows?” “Why is there a hill in front of the house?” “Why is the person standing in the […]
