• Eating Chinese in the Park n Ride

    Eating Chinese in the Park n Ride

    I’m sitting in the Park-n-Ride parking lot eating Chinese food out of a paper box because home doesn’t feel like…

  • Listening for God in the Ache

    Listening for God in the Ache

    This morning I woke up with that familiar weight sitting beneath my ribs—an ache I’ve tried so hard to pretend…

  • Morning Stillness

    Morning Stillness

    I love mornings like this — quiet, still, untouched. The snow laying its soft, safe blanket over the earth, the…

  • A Softer Season Coming

    A Softer Season Coming

    Thanksgiving has come and gone, and for the first time in a while, I’m genuinely excited to go home. I’m…

  • A Home I Still Haven’t Found

    A Home I Still Haven’t Found

    Ever since I was little, I dreamed of a home. A real one. A place that felt warm and steady,…

  • The Contrast

    The Contrast

    I want to stop writing about you. Truly. I want my journal to finally become a place for the parts…

  • Journal Entry

    Journal Entry

    I don’t even know where to put all of this anymore. The emotions, the confusion, the hurt — they feel…

  • On Hatred, Hurt, and the Men in the Front Seat

    On Hatred, Hurt, and the Men in the Front Seat

    Tonight, as we drive back toward Colorado, I can’t shake the storm inside my chest. It feels ugly and heavy,…

  • On The Way Home

    On The Way Home

    I’m on my way home now, and I don’t feel as happy about it as I thought I would. Maybe…

  • What Love Is, and What It Is Not

    What Love Is, and What It Is Not

    Tonight in the tree, another hunt was ruined — not by silence or weather, but by words that pierced deeper…

  • Morning in the Stand

    Morning in the Stand

    Here I stand, in another stand. I’ve seen so many deer, yet my opportunity has not come. Still, this morning—though…

  • Rain and Gratitude

    Rain and Gratitude

    It’s cold, and it’s raining so hard that my phone can barely stay dry long enough for me to write…

  • November 7 – Evening Prayer in the Woods

    November 7 – Evening Prayer in the Woods

    Tonight my prayer was simple, but it came from a deep place in me: Lord, I really do want to…

  • The Grace That Arrives After Surrender

    The Grace That Arrives After Surrender

    There’s a strange paradox I keep seeing play out in my life — that somehow, when I finally give up…

  • The Weight of Noise

    The Weight of Noise

    I never want to become one of those people who has to fill every possible moment with sound. There’s something…

  • The Tree and the Truth

    The Tree and the Truth

    It takes everything in me to remember grace — to not let anger harden me. Hate only rusts the heart,…

  • A Different Side of Things

    A Different Side of Things

    I thought I’d have so much time to journal while sitting in these tree stands, but my hands have mostly…

  • The Weight of It All

    The Weight of It All

    Clay’s anxiety eats at me, at him, and at us. The longer we’re together, the more I see the angsty…

  • Coming Back to Myself

    Coming Back to Myself

    Well hey — it’s been a while, but I’m so happy to have a place to spill my thoughts again.…