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The Strong & Silent Type
The internet hates me, my back gave out, and I feel incompetent
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The Town Drunk in the Miracle Garden
My overriding feeling of fatherhood so far
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Birth Feels Too Much Like Death
My honest reflections on becoming a father and the proximity of life and death in the delivery room.
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This Is Not A Ghost Story
How family estrangement, identity loss, and tragedy led me to a 183-year-old Russian short story that may have been sent to me from beyond the grave.
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I Dare You To Keep Mistreating Me
An essay on boundaries, bullying, a parking-lot standoff, and my habit of hurting myself to be seen.
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My Inner Critic Won't Shut Up
The one way I've learned to reframe perfectionism, self-contempt, and the need for control
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My Mom Laughed At My Pain
And I started to copy her
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"Just Tell Me You're Gay"
Interrogations of Love, Masculinity, and Becoming
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