Preface On May 29, 2023, I wrote the piece below while in an emotional place that no one willingly travels to. Depression isn’t a destination, it’s an invasion. While particularly down one day, I had the idea of personifying depression. And with that idea, this is what came out. _________________________________________ She won’t want me to, but I have to talk about her. Dolores creeps into my brain cells and uses this convincing, yet soothing voice that mimics my own. It’s s

Anxiety is a sneaky devil. Its whispers start as a gentle breeze, but before you know it, you’re being flung around in a mental tornado of hell. One moment you are confident, convinced the words you are typing on the page are tiny lights stringing together to form the next shining work of literature. One moment you are chasing the dream of building a community that will foster the growth of other budding entrepreneurs, with no doubt in your mind you can disrupt the industry c

Whitney Houston, your words ring true thirty years later. Time changes. Technology changes. Our lives are now run by mini computers that rarely leave our hands. We pay strangers to give us car rides. Going to the mall has been replaced by the e-commerce giant Jeff Bezos built, which I seem to fund single-handedly. The Dewey Decimal System has been erased and buried beneath library cobwebs as students find information at the tips of their fingers within seconds. You can even i