Since 2019, my blogs have been my form of expression, my voice, and sometimes my release valve for everything I hold inside and often can’t say out loud.
Mind you, I don’t believe what I say is offensive. At least, I hope not.
But these blogs show that I have a mind. I have thoughts. I have feelings. I have opinions about the world around me, my own life, and the things we experience every day.
Over the last few years, I have released collections of these blogs as books, and, surprisingly, people actually purchase them.
I say “surprisingly” because it is still a little mind-bending to think that someone in Germany, India, Australia, or somewhere else in the United States might purchase a book containing thoughts that originally began with me simply sitting down and writing.
Yes, there is still an active blog that anyone can follow and read for free.
The books were never intended to replace that.
I create them because I want these writings to continue to exist.
Websites change. Technology changes. Things disappear.
A book is tangible.
It can sit on a shelf. Years from now, someone can pick it up and see what I was thinking, feeling, questioning, laughing about, struggling with, or simply observing at that particular moment in my life.
And I will continue putting these blog books out into the world.
That brings me to the next one.
Volume 4: Seething Arrives November 10
Seething continues that journey, collecting another period of my writing and the thoughts that came with it.
Inside these pages, I write openly about mental health, work, layoffs, financial pressure, family, self-worth, grief, faith, and that constant question of whether we are doing enough with the life we have been given. Some of these blogs come from difficult places, including moments when I questioned my own value and struggled with thoughts I normally kept buried inside. Others examine the pressures of providing for a family, comparing ourselves to people who seem to be doing better than we are, and wondering where exactly we fit in this world.
There are no claims here that I have the answers. In fact, sometimes these blogs probably create more questions than answers. They are simply honest snapshots of where my head and heart were when I sat down to write them.
And maybe that is the best way to describe Seething.
It is not a book about having life figured out. It is a record of what happens when you don’t.
Like the previous volumes, Seething isn’t about pretending that I have all the answers. It is about documenting the questions, thoughts, frustrations, memories, observations, and pieces of myself that I otherwise might have kept inside.
Maybe that is really what these books have become for me:
Snapshots of who I was at a particular moment in time.
And apparently, somewhere out there, some of you want to read those snapshots.
For that, I remain genuinely grateful.
Blog Book Volume 4: Seething
Available November 10 at major online retailers.
Thank you to everyone who has read the blog, purchased one of the previous volumes, or simply taken a few minutes out of your day to read something I had to say.
It still means more to me than you probably realize.
