Articles & Essays
A collection of my essays, reflections, and creative pieces. Topics span marketing insights, book reviews, music experiences, and original creative writing.
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How to Say the Hard Things: Lessons from a Crude Wake-Up Call
Sometimes wisdom comes from unexpected places. For me, it arrived through five crude words at a Christian music festival in 2004: "Pull your head out of your ass."
The Wharf
The angles are at odds with the almost soft and childish way you look back at me, a mixture of shame and fear in your eyes that I'm not used to seeing so prominently expressed. You look cold, a discomfort evident in the set of your shoulders, the tightness around your eyes. Yet you refuse to wrap your arms …
Syncopated Steps and Accidental Achievements
Just a week ago, I was on the phone with my mom as Hurricane Helene ravaged her home in Mills River, North Carolina. Though I couldn't hear the wind itself, the sound of windchimes on her porch furiously clanging in the background haunts me still. …
