Threshold — The Friction That Never Sat Right I’ve never resonated with the hero’s journey. That’s not a contrarian posture. It’s a lived mismatch. In high school, when teachers rolled out Campbell’s arc as if it were a universal skeleton
A race morning in Logan becomes a study in nervous‑system clarity, gravel‑taught handling, GLP‑1 physiology, and the quiet spectrum of athletes who share the same asphalt. From the serpentine swim to the cramped bike to the softening of ego in a post‑race shoelace conversation, this essay traces the anticipatory...
Say that again! There’s a phrase I use in my own house and in my consulting work: passive‑aggressive praise. Not the hostile kind — the architectural kind. The kind you use when you understand that different nervous systems metabolize attention
WHOLE PARENT Podcast – Mary Van Geffen Parenting a SPICY One – Book https://youtu.be/0Ar3SJ81q0w?si=fuu4vLdf9-lewdL1 The episode centers on parenting coach Mary Van Geffen and her framework for understanding and supporting “spicy kids” — children whose intensity, sensitivity, or oppositional energy
I wanted to make sure this is dicscoverable in the future Not all wisdom arrives in polished form. Sometimes it shows up in the dry, wry honesty of a comic doing crowd work — those unscripted moments where a truth
WE🌀AD: The Cycle That Turns the Work WE🌀AD began as a framework — a simple way to organize my work. But it didn’t stay one. It kept moving, widening, shedding its edges until it became something else entirely: a cycle,
Endurance isn’t a single skill—it’s the current running through my work, my body, and the unseen weight I’ve carried for years. This piece reflects on injury, clarity, and the quiet labor that rarely gets named. It’s a distillation of what remains when the noise falls away.
And when the thief of comparison slips in, when someone else’s perception tries to overwrite my own lived truth, it disrupts the small glimmers of joy I’ve earned. Confidence wavers. Sentience blurs. Navigating that monster — and the smaller monsters orbiting it — carries a cost I still don’t...