Day in the Life
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One Year and An Announcement
One year ago today was one of the worst days of my life. On May 4, 2017, I lost one of my dearest friends in the world. Having been in the horse rescue world for almost a decade, I love each and every horse I care for with everything I have. They are my brothers Continue reading
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Rise: It’s Time To Talk About Anxiety
I won’t just survive Oh, you will see me thrive Can’t write my story I’m beyond the archetype [I heard Katy Perry’s song “Rise” around August of last year and it about blew my soul wide open. Every now and then, a song just gets under my skin and become self-defining. To me, “Rise” defines my battle with – Continue reading
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Head vs. Heart
I walked into Jim’s house/Tierra Madre Horse Sanctuary’s office on a Tuesday morning after I got back from Washington to collect a pile of mail that’d built up in my absence. It was December 27th, and we’d survived another Christmas. I’d been on pins and needles the whole morning, waiting to hear if anything had gone Continue reading
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Tyler
Ten years. It’s been ten years since a day that shook me to my core and set a precedent for how I would drive for the rest of my life. It’s been ten years since the brief time I lived in Bradenton, Florida – six months of hell that almost destroyed me – and within Continue reading
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On Being Alone on Election Eve
On this Election Eve I want to tell a story. Earlier this evening I was walking towards the salad and sandwich place at which I often stop for dinner before class. An elderly homeless man was standing a bit away from it, holding out a cup and asking passerby for change. We’ve all seen those Continue reading
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Putting on the Hazards
Yesterday evening I was sitting in my car in the ASU Cronkite lot, putting food in my face, when a guy came up to my window and indicated I should roll it down. “Hi,” he said, “do you know you’re getting a flat tire?” I’m pretty sure it took me something like twenty seconds to Continue reading
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Time and Energy
I have started, stopped, restarted, erased, started again, and temporarily given up on about twelve blog posts over the past few months. I’ll get the idea for a post based off life observations, random epiphanies, or stories from my life that hold some kind of personal meaning (all of which stick to the theme of this Continue reading
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This is Why I Hated Working Retail
I’d like to nominate the guy recently in front of me in line at CVS as the Biggest Jerk in the World. I ran over to the store earlier to grab candy (because why not) and went to stand in line to check out. It was something like 8 o’clock, there was one cashier, and Continue reading
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My 100th Post, Some Recaps, and A Farewell to Sanity
This post jumps all over the place, but then again so do I. So maybe it works out, somehow. Today I looked back a bit over this blog, which I started in April 2012. 100 posts later, I am marveling at the life journey I’ve had since I started Shorts and Snippets, particularly over this past year Continue reading
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How Writing a Book Helped Me Stand Up to My Bullies
I have always loved to write. As a child, I always seemed to use my computer time typing up stories, each one growing longer and more elaborate than the next. By the time I was 13, I’d written five actual books. I still have copies of each one. My fifth was a novel called It Continue reading
Shorts and Snippets 