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I wonder sometimes where I would be in life if not for fear. How many opportunities have I lost because I didn’t have the courage to take them? What more might I have learned? How much stronger could I have become? When I was in high school, I spent a couple of years on a robotics team. It was well outside of my normal range of interests, but my dad encouraged me to try it, and I’m usually up for trying something new. I consider that experience to have been a valuable part o

Several times in the last decade of my life I have found myself battling depressive episodes and fatalistic thinking. I am a far cry from being perfectly healed and I’m by no means an expert on the topic, but I do want to share the things that have helped me work through that and I hope that they can help someone else. Every depressive episode I have been through was deeply tied to a feeling of disconnect. Twice now, I’ve moved away from my family and struggled deeply with th

I grew up homeschooled in a conservative Christian household. Church twice a week, scripture every day, and prayer before dinner was my norm. I was the kid wearing the weird dresses that she made herself and not fitting in very well with the other kids from church. Nowadays I’m more adept at interacting with people who have different backgrounds and lifestyles, but I’m still the odd one out most of the time. I’ve been called “super religious,” “goody-two-shoes,” “prude,” and

September 10, 2025, hit me hard. Like many Americans, I still haven’t recovered. I never met Charlie Kirk, and I wasn’t in the habit of listening to him regularly, but I knew who he was and what he stood for. I think I probably started listening to his stuff when I was eighteen or so. I was forming my own political opinions, and he was in the group of debaters that I came to respect. I was also a young person receiving the side-eye from others for choosing not to go to colleg