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I'm done swallowing my stories: Starting a Substack

I'm done swallowing my stories: Starting a Substack

I’m approaching my 21st anniversary of publicly sharing my life online, and I plan to continue because the constancy of the practice brings me comfort, like my other long-standing habits. I also carry on because I refuse to swallow my stories for the sake of a larger cultural or subcultural agenda.

Wholehearted writing (and depression on the Appalachian Trail)

Wholehearted writing (and depression on the Appalachian Trail)

We go through experiences that wear us down to our core, and break our shell. And these experiences, like my long distance hike, will show us what's operating below the surface of our lives. And it won't be your goodness that will help light the path through this wreckage, it will be your courage.