Tag: mental health
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It’s All Hebrew To Me
!שלום So, in August of 2020, I reached peak mental boredom. Some of my friends would say, “Yeah, what else is new?” And you’re right. It’s not new. My brain has always, as long as I can remember, become bored very easily. My mother actually banned the word “bored” in our household when I was…
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The Weight of the World
I went hiking in Southern Indiana with a few friends last week. It was a hilarious and delightful experience that required frequent breaks for selfies, videos of us crossing the same creek three times in our bare feet, and conversations about the absurdity of hiking in mud. The laughter was frequent and the nature was…
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The Daily Grind
In my freshman year of college, my creative writing professor made us keep a writing journal and share it with another classmate every week. It was supposed to help us write down ideas, memories, phrases, basically to keep an account of our lives and thoughts so we could later write about them. I loved doing…
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A Birthday Secret
I’m coming up on a birthday and I have decided to share an incredible secret with you. Are you ready? You don’t look ready. You should be on the edge of your seat. No, not like that. Ugh, whatever. Here it is: I have no idea what I’m doing. That’s it. That’s the secret. For…
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Lather, Rinse, Repeat
Okay, so overall my new job is going well. But the past week or two I’ve been feeling like my life is akin to the directions on a shampoo bottle. Get up, go to the gym, go to work, come home, eat dinner, pack lunch, set the coffee pot, stretch, read my Bible, and go…
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High-Maintenance
I have tried my whole life to be easy to get along with. I want to be the Toyota Camry of people, you know? Functional, dependable, just needing the occasional oil change and to have someone spray the salt off my undercarriage every spring. Okay, maybe I took that metaphor too far. You still get…