I really don't want to stay stuck on the same thoughts forever,  and I am working through the painful healing process. However, healing a wounded soul takes time, a long time when the wound was intentional. My current rumination is thinking how you had to destroy my life in order to have her AND you were OK with that. Re-read that. You were OK destroying my life. It doesn't matter why. You should never be OK hurting someone else on purpose, but you were. What happened to frie

This was one of the firsts in what would be a list of unbearable moments, unexpected foreshadowing of what was to come. We had a history of jogging together on the Beltline or around the base of Stone Mountain. We usually started together, but she would often go off on her own for a bit because she was much faster and fitter. Nevertheless, it always felt like we did it as a team. In 2019 when I ran my first 5k, she ran super slow right by my side, and it meant everything to m

Very few people know this: I have had several vacations in the last 7 years–Charleston, Ohio, Savannah, Alabama & Florida, Charlotte, St. Simons & Sapelo, New Mexico, and Boston. And countless day trips–Albany, Tuscaloosa, Selma, Huntsville, Eatonton, Millbrook.  There's no proof that I was there. I used to do a lot of photography. Since coming to Atlanta, I have had 3 primary subjects, but you would only know about two of them. Besides taking pictures of the animals around t