Finding the Pieces
The story of how a lost boy found home
Category: writing
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This post has been cross-posted from my Medium profile. Please follow me on there for more stories! “Referral office, how can I direct your call?” Heart beats. “Alright, Miss Hall,” I sigh, but I don’t correct. “It looks like your referral has been approved. Would you like the contact information for that office?” Deep breath,…
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Therapy, man. You think you know yourself, but you are dead wrong. I am 25 years old, and for many years I have operated under the understanding that I am an introvert. When I first learned that I was an introvert, I took that shit to the bank. I crafted a damn-near formal proposal for my…
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Welcome to January. It’s dark, wet, and freaking freezing. Now given the fact that it’s 2017, I am well aware of the inventions of modern-day civilization, namely the blessed metal box god of warmth: the radiator. But alas, the radiator is only fueled by the fire and power of the boiler, which is in-turn fueled…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This last semester I presented an essay at my school’s scholar conference about YouTube as a cultural text. I’m actually still surprised that my professor let me write the paper on YouTube, and I think that essay will probably go down as one of my favorite written pieces thus far in my college career. I…
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Happy Father’s Day, everyone! I have been trying to decide if I wanted to write a post today, and I finally decided that there’s someone pretty important to me that I wanted to write about: my grandpa. I honestly do not even know where to begin. My grandfather is the kind of person that would…
Finding the Pieces 