Finding the Pieces

The story of how a lost boy found home

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Category: finding the pieces

  • Being Honest: Losing Weight One Failure or Success at a Time

    For those of you who might have been reading this blog for more than a few months, you might remember that I used to write a lot about my weight loss journey. You might also have noticed that I haven’t really written about that journey in a long time. I could give the excuse that…

  • My Future Is Not Contingent Upon My Relationship Status

    Tonight I was having a conversation with my mom, and we somehow got on the topic of marriage and children. The words “I don’t know if I’ll get married or have kids” left my mouth and I immediately knew that I had said the wrong thing. Actually, a better way to put that is I…

  • Questions You Ask When Waiting for Biopsy Results

    I don’t usually post the videos from my YouTube channel on this blog unless I have a really good reason to. This just happens to be one of those things. I was going to write a blog post about this experience, but at the time I was still processing everything and talking it out made…

  • The Midterm Wall

    It has reached that point in the term where the following things can be overheard on a daily basis on most college campuses: “How is everyone today?” [various grunts, moans, and other noises that were anything but proper English] [in a happy voice] “I got four hours of sleep last night!” Student 1: Can we…

  • Rethinking the Purpose of Education

    We live in a culture that seems to want to tell its children one of two things. The first is that they can be “whatever they want to be” when they grow up. The second is that they can be whatever they want to be as long as what they want to be is practical…

  • The Joy of Work

    A common theme in my life right now is busyness. I spend nearly every waking moment working. Working on homework. Reading for school. Reading as a discipline to become a better reader, better writer, better scholar, and a better me. Working on my writing skills. Working on YouTube. Working on internships. Working at a gas…

  • Intentional Living: Finding Balance and Being a Role Model

    Now that we’re in the third week of classes and the dust of a new term has finally settled, I decided to take some time to write a new blog post. My schedule is kind of insane right now, but I need to remember to take time to do what I want to do. Don’t get…

  • Trying to Understand

    I just watched a video of Kajieme Powell being shot by police in St. Louis, Missouri, and I’m shocked. I don’t know what I was expecting when I clicked ‘play’ on the video. But what I saw made my stomach drop and my eyes burn. This wasn’t the usual witness account with a shaky camera angle…

  • Unfiltered: Breaking Barriers and Nerding Out

    Tonight I decided that I needed to clean my desk before I got any internship work done. Like all of my other big projects, this turned into about seven smaller projects, but at least this time I actually finished most of them. All I wanted to do was put the scattered papers into a neat…

  • Balance is a Tricky Thing

    Apparently I have a problem with balance. I’m not talking about physical balance and the ability to not fall over on a daily basis, though I do occasionally struggle with that kind of balance as well. The kind of balance I’m talking about is life balance (if that wasn’t a thing before, I’m making it…