Welcome
Hi there! My name is Randy and this is where I write about life, growth, and intimacy — basically all the things I should have figured out by now.
Three focal points on life from one very human voice.

Someone asked me recently where I’ve been finding all this extra time to write. It’s a fair question. The posts have been coming fast and…
I was nineteen years old, homeless, living out of my car, and seriously considering whether staying alive was worth the effort. My…
There’s a photo on my phone from April 28, 2014. I’m grinning at the camera like everything is fine. Wide eyes, big…
Well, good morning, Mugwumps. Pour yourself some strong coffee, because this past weekend was a Lot. In case you somehow slept through…
My weekly attempt to make sense of the world so I can fight for life instead of being run over by it.
A midweek dispatch from the part of me that wanders off emotionally and sends back cryptic little postcards.
Where I check in on my personal growth and discover, yet again, that I don’t have to have “issues” to deal with.
Subscribe for a weekly mix of cultural side-eye, emotional spelunking, personal growth attempts, and the occasional chaotic deep-dive into intimacy and desire.