Your Brain Injury Makes You A Liability

Everyone warned me about him. I didn't listen. Figured the track record would speak for itself and, well, it did lolololol. He kept telling me, "Your brain injury makes you a liability". Weird thing to say to someone whose specs you couldn't touch. That&…

Mastering Resiliance

I'M BACK AND RUNNING BEYOND HAPPY! I outright reject any notion that I'm a burden or that "my brain injury makes me a liability". as a "business partner" and "Friend" told me multiple times. My worth is not up for…

King Nothing.

Anger waits. Around a corner in my mind it rests. Not hate. Hate requires history we never had. We weren't enemies. We weren't friends. Anger waits.…

We're Thriving

My family and I are on cloud 9. Tyler, my oldest, is joining Lehi Fire! When I was in the hospital and doctor's were telling my wife "its time to say goodbye to him", my wife said my son told her "Well, I need to…

Doing Things That Scare You

In late 2000, I stood on the edge of an airplane door, heart racing like a cheetah on Red Bull. I was a few days away from leaving for 2 years to Holland and Belgium, and I needed a last hoorah. Despite loving fast and wild adventures, skydiving was new.…

Death Comes

Death comes for everyone This is not threat This is certainty Fear lives in the pretending In the looking away Look at it Let it see you back Now you are free Not from death From the flinch -- For everyone it waits Not with malice With certainty It does…

2 Years, and I still feel you. I shouldn't be here.

0:00 /1:20 1× 2 years ago: Continued from last year ---- And I still vividly about this particular aspect of it: “You need to call Lindsey, right now.” “I can’t….” When Lindsey arrived, she said I was crying out to you, “...come back, Mom!” Yet the hospital…

Eros

Every room I enter, I am looking. Not scanning. Not browsing. Looking. The way the faithful look for signs. Years of faces. Years of almost. Years of wrong mouth, wrong laugh,wrong silence. Then you. Not lightning. Not revelation. Just recognition, like remembering a word I didn't know…

Your Technical Interviews Suck

You're rejecting candidates because they didn't reverse a binary tree in 12 minutes. On a whiteboard. While someone watched. That's not evaluation. That's a hazing ritual with a MacBook. You want to know if someone can build your CRUD app. So you…