Family & Inheritance
Childhood, mothers, addiction, class, responsibility, and the survival patterns that arrive before language. These pieces look backward without nostalgia. They trace the furniture, rooms, women, work, hunger, and early bargains that taught the nervous system how to survive before the adult self knew what it was surviving.The Brown Vinyl Chair
Childhood, addiction, disappearance, and the decision to stay.
Formidable Women Who Gave Me My Voice
The women whose force, care, and standards shaped the man and the writer.
No One Is Coming To Save You
Addiction, sex work, violence, and the brutal education of being left unaided.
How My Past Is Impacting My Performance
The nervous system at work, and the cost of old attentiveness.