Dissonance Personified

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Terrarium Therapy
For the past few weeks, I’ve been digging holes in my yard, moving rocks, and building tiny ecosystems in my basement. It’s safe to say I’m addicted to…
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Waiting Room Storytellers
I went to my local VA clinic this week to get my eyes checked. While waiting with pupils as big as marbles in the “dilated eye waiting area,” I talked…
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An Open Letter to the Child I Never Had
To my son, had you been born, I wonder if you’d have looked like me. I wanted to write you and perhaps apologize and explain why you don’t exist outside…
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Shooting Wildlife
I feel like I’ve been thrown off a building. My knees and back ache. My skin is full of cuts and scratches from myriad briars. I couldn’t be happier…
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Backyard Landmines
I love snakes. I love venomous snakes. But… something is unnerving about finding them when you’re not looking for them. Two years ago, while mowing some…
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Just Below the Surface
There’s been something brewing just below the surface for quite a while. If I had to guess, I’d say it started around four years ago. It started small…
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Good Friday
This weekly venture began on Good Friday of 2023. One year and roughly 70,000 words later, here we are. I’ve written fifty-two weekly articles ranging…
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Better Late Than Never
I’m writing the first lines of this article thirty minutes past when it should have gone live. It likely won’t be finished until hours later. I’ve…
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The Bridge
I’ve been thinking about him a lot lately. The man on the bridge. That cursed bridge. I’d put him out of my mind for years. Lately, I’ve been seeing his…
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Dissonance Personified
Dissonance Personified
This is about faith, frogs, and the fog inside my head; or some combination of it all. I write about the American Southeast from wildlife to wild nights and everything in between. Welcome to the static. I am dissonance personified.
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