Never Mistake My Kindness For Weakness

You smile for them. The mask holds. Your truth stays buried and so you continue. You walk past me, handing your insecurities to others like offerings, tried to climb through me, fed them lies like currency, made your moves in boardrooms and hallways, and still, nothing shifted. But behind closed…

No Ghosts In My Closet

For some reason, regardless of the relationship, everyone has always known everything about me. I don't go around volunteering all my stories, but I also don't lie when asked. Never have. I've always struggled with liars. Not even the big lies. The obvious ones.…

How To Spot A Liar

This video was sent to me by someone who called out this liar before, just as we did. Someone's baseline + deviation. You don't catch liars by looking for nervousness. Nervous people are everywhere. Honest people get nervous. Practiced liars are calm as a lake and paint…

The Unraveling

What I find interesting about everything you tried to put my family through is how much we saw you unravel by your own hand. We'd been warned. I disregarded it I didn't know them. I didn't know you. You were just my neighbor who…

Cheaper Than A Divorce

"Him paying you to not sue him is probably cheaper than a divorce" someone said. Apparently a lot of divorce talks were happening, according to neighbors. Perhaps related to the multiple times cops were at their house. "If we pay you, will this be done?!" his…

Numbers Dont Lie. People Lie.

That dashboard you're staring at didn't materialize from the void. Someone chose what to count. Someone chose what not to count. When the numbers look wrong, your first instinct is to debug the math. Wrong instinct. Debug the people. Who touched this data? What were they…

Hate Only Comes From Below

My wife sent me a text that included a lot of the below philosophy. She smiled after she sent it, saying "it's incredible to look back, and reflect on how much he tried to do to us, how much he said about us to others, when all…