This was one of the worst nights I’ve had in a long time, but I survived it. Not without help, though.
Please don’t ever think you have to tackle everything on your own. When you need assistance, reach for it.
June 4th, 2014
Monthly Archives: June 2014
June 3rd, 2014
I have never identified anxiety as my main issue (especially having known a few people who suffer from it on a scale that I don’t even register upon), but I’ve been struggling a lot with it lately.
Luckily, I have some outlets. If I can’t fix the cause, I will happily keep working on the symptoms.
June 2nd, 2014
Most of the people who have seen me perform know me for having a big, powerful voice but often when I sing for myself I take a different approach.
I think this started because I felt self-conscious in my last living arrangement, but it’s becoming another way for me to connect to music. Sometimes a song needs to be shouted, but sometimes it’s nice to just let it float.
June 1st, 2014
Before I had a job in Chicago, I would often walk the streets until two or three in the morning, listening to music or podcasts and thinking about what was coming next. My greatest memories of that city all involve moments of clarity spent under street lights with no one but a few nervous late night commuters to encroach on my solitude.
May 31st, 2014
I am never going to look like Hugh Jackman.
May 30th, 2014
Yet another “new start.” I am full of new starts.
Yes, I bought a turquoise case. This should surprise no one.
May 29th, 2014
Tonight I saw Poncho Sanchez at Jimmy Mak’s here in Portland having very little idea what I was walking into.
I smiled, I danced (badly), I wondered why I didn’t do this more often.
May 28th, 2014
Endless training classes and endless coffee and training classes and coffee and training classes and coffee and
May 27th, 2014
If you are also a survivor, there is help. You are not alone. There is nothing wrong with you for feeling the way you do and you are not broken beyond repair.
Below are a few places I have turned since finally beginning to confront this over the last two months.
May 26th, 2014
When I’m in a relationship, my partners have always appreciated my ability to remember dates and anniversaries. I mark them with special events and appropriate fanfare.
As a single guy, sometimes this tendency is less helpful.