Category: Personal

  • Not Done Yet: A 2026 Series

    In 2018, I started this blog on the Seattle Pacific University campus. In the 8 years I’ve been writing, I haven’t had a year like 2025. Personally, I watched as family members and friends suffered through mysterious illnesses and in my writing ministry, I faced pushback with intensity and cruelty I haven’t faced before and…

  • Currents

    Being a human is exhausting.

  • The Off Season

    Death, taxes, and the NWSL cramming an entire off season into a week or two. There’s a lot to unpack, and this article will be updated as necessary. The action practically began, in NWSL terms, while the season was still going. In late December, Makenzy Doniak was traded from the Royals to the Red Stars.…

  • Lies I’ve Told

    The biggest lie I have ever told was in first grade. I told my mom an elaborate story of a gunman that came into my elementary school and hid on our stage. I was grounded, though I’m certain it wasn’t for as long as I deserved. I’ve told millions, if not billions of lies, since…

  • Ellen, Existence, and Equality of Thought

    Lies We Believe About Ourselves and Others Day 2: Ellen, Existence, and the Equality of Thought In October, an unlikely thing happened. A queen of daytime TV, who many across political spectrums and identities have come to love and respect, came under fire for the very thing that made her a revolution: kindness. Ellen DeGeneres,…

  • I’m Fine.

    Stop saying I’m fine.

  • NWSL Playoff Predictions

    We’re just over a month away from the last regular season games of the NWSL season. Insert all the crying GIFs. To commemorate, I thought I’d make predictions for the last games to come up with who I think the final four will be, and who will ultimately win those games. I also have predictions…

  • An Open Letter to the President

    Dear Mr. President, The first and only other time I have written a President of the United States was in December of 2013, after a shooting occurred at one of three high schools in my district. Many of my friends at the time were in the building. I wrote an impassioned plea to then-president Obama…

  • World Cup 2019 and NWSL in Review

    Women’s football fans, we had an electric world cup to be thankful for this year. Sad it’s over and all your favorite players will have to wait four years before being on your TV again? Not so fast. Find out what club teams all your favorite players are on at the end of this post.…

  • Land of the Free

    Photo by rawpixel.com on Pexels.com Happy Independence Day to all those in America who are free. And I don’t mean those who are metaphorically free, entering us all into a debate about privilege and rights, those who are more free than others (although we certainly could have that discussion), I mean those who are not…