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.

There’s a photo on my phone from April 28, 2014. I’m grinning at the camera like everything is fine. Wide eyes, big smile, that particular…
Well, good morning, Mugwumps. Pour yourself some strong coffee, because this past weekend was a Lot. In case you somehow slept through…
I had a moment Wednesday that cracked something open in me — the quiet kind of crack, not the dramatic kind. No…
There is a very specific kind of evening that starts completely normal and ends with you standing in your backyard holding the…
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.
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