The Night William Died and the Man I Became Because of It
My brother William was a Baldwin County Deputy Sheriff. He was killed in the line of duty on December 17th, 1995. I was 25 years old, and I have never been the same person since.
My brother William was a Baldwin County Deputy Sheriff. He was killed in the line of duty on December 17th, 1995. I was 25 years old, and I have never been the same person since.
When ADHD, anxiety, and autism get identified at 55, the first thing you feel isn’t relief. It’s grief for every decade that passed without the map.
I got my first tattoo at 52 and made every mistake in slow motion. Here’s what I’d tell myself if I could go back to that parlor chair.
Getting a diagnosis at 55 doesn’t fix anything. But it does something almost as useful, it explains everything, and changes how you judge the person you used to be.
I was 52 years old, sitting in a tattoo chair in Forsyth, Georgia, and the only person in the room who wasn’t surprised was the artist holding the machine.
Most people pick a tattoo artist the way they pick a restaurant on a Tuesday night, whoever’s available and has decent reviews. After six tattoos and one more going on today, I can tell you that approach is how you end up with permanent regret.
Blogging in 2026 feels about as culturally relevant as owning a fax machine. Here’s why I do it anyway, and why the reason probably isn’t what you’d expect.
I spent 55 years running on a brain nobody had a name for. Turns out it built something real anyway — but not without a cost worth being honest about.
Flash, our Miniature Dachshund, lived 16 years in this house and left a hole that doesn’t make sense on paper. This is an honest account of what that actually means.
I don’t use hostnames like SERVER01 or DESKTOP-A4F2C. Every machine on my network has a real name, a personality, and a reason it got that name. Here’s the system behind it.