My middle school teacher’s wedding… the global Microsoft server outage… $$$ spent, yet priceless relationships earned… this was my beautiful weekend trip to New Jersey.

Dedicated to Ms. Sander. :)

What if the personality traits, imperfections, and insecurities we feel self-conscious about are actually someone's favorite thing about us?

This one is dedicated to my older friends, and especially Laurie!

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Keeping with Episode 93’s theme of loneliness, here is a song I wrote last year— called “sleepless”— in Seattle. ;)
I’m starting to think this will never end
I’m starting to lose gravitation
I’m starting to wonder if you never did wonder if I could ever be patient…
And in dreams I go home
“Only to no home I’ve ever known”
I wonder— if I leave,
I wonder if anybody would miss me

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...Not really, but also yes. Some honest thoughts/feelings recently on being so surrounded yet so lonely at the same time.

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BONUS CONTENT… this is the song I performed in the open mic mentioned in last episode! Written/recorded in 2022.

You would always walk all over me

Take a good thing and make it bad

I used to chalk it off as reality

But why should I have to say that?

My tongue’s on fire, it’s life and death

My lungs are tired, you're every breath

Needless to say,

We are done

I hope you

Grow up someday

Into someone

Who can

Know that there's more

To feeling secure

Than making someone else feel dumb

I know you be-

Lieve me a fool

But believe me, you

Would be leaving too

If I said and did

The things that you do

You think I'm a kid

But darling that’s you…

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What going to my first open mic-- and performing my own original songs-- taught me about comfort zones.

Spoiler: they're worth stepping out of. :) Even when you have to stop yourself halfway thru the song because you froze...

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What my birthday-- and a video of Travis Kelce-- taught me about adding fun to your days to break up the monotony. Enjoy!

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This week's "audio postcard": my trip back to Seattle! Reunions, graduations, strange anxiety to be back, redemptive memories made, and realizations of how much I miss having close friends around... overall, an insightful-- and really lovely-- trip.

Thanks for listening :)

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When you're feeling unaccomplished/unworthy, think of yourself from an outsider's point of view... even if that "outsider" is just a past version of you! See yourself in 3rd-person. :)

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Why is it so tempting sometimes to lean into depression, sadness, angst, the victim mentality, etc?!... in this episode I discuss my journey to get away from my emotional masochism/"strange addiction" to sadness.

Thanks for listening-- I hope you can't relate (but if you do, maybe this will help).

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