Category: Personal

  • Rating My Childhood Fears

    Bryce rates his childhood fears

  • Geriatric Bride

    The latest in the 30 in 30 series discusses Bryce’s relationship with marriage.

  • Grown-Up Theater Kid

    Bryce reflects on his relationship with the stage.

  • Bridges, Tracks, Sports: The Cruelty of US Adults

    On November 14, 1960, a young Black girl walked into William Frantz Elementary School flanked by US Marshals. Her family and friends were so proud, excited, and nervous for her that she assumed she was a child prodigy headed to college. Instead, she was a pioneer against cruelty. Louisiana had dragged its feet on desegregating…

  • 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.