I Left the Church at Fourteen. I Was Baptized in December 2024.
I left convinced Christianity was not for people who could not sit still or focus. It took decades to hear a version of it that had room for me.
Tag: Personal Growth (Page 3)
FearI Spent Thirty-Three Years in a Box and Called It a Career
Never went looking for better, never went back to school, never reached past the edge of what I had. Comfortable is the wall people mistake for a career.
GhostwritingGhostwriting Self-Help Books: Turning Wisdom Into a Usable Method
Ghostwriting a self-help book means turning a person's hard-won wisdom into a system a reader can truly use, in a voice readers trust.
Book ReviewsMaster the Art of Closing the Sale
A practical sales book by Benjamin Brown that I had a hand in, so instead of score it I will tell you what it is. Aimed at salespeople and business owners, it lays out a concrete, repeatable process for closing…
InterviewsIt Took a Camera to Make Me Comfortable Around Women
I went looking for a method and found several. None of them made me comfortable in a room with a woman in it. A camera did that, years later, entirely by accident.
FamilyThe Hypervigilance That Ruined My Childhood Made My Career
The systematic thinking I built to predict my father's explosions turned out to be the same thinking that reads a failing system. Nobody warned me the skill would transfer.
HostingI Hid in the Bedroom at My Own Party. It Was Going Fine.
Out of ice, wine on the carpet, and me having a quiet breakdown in the bedroom. The party was going perfectly well. I was measuring it wrong.
Book ROI & Business CaseThe Rose Parade Pins That Stopped Me Decluttering
I had the display case open and the pins counted. Then I checked what they were worth, and the arithmetic stopped me. Knowing when to stop is the part nobody teaches.
IT CareerShort Biography of Richard Lowe
The long version of the story: the house, the fire, the machines, Claudia, the camera, and the books. Everything that led to The Writing King.
Character DevelopmentToxic People and the Creative Life: How to Protect Your Work
The real enemy of creative work is not a dry spell; it is the toxic people who drift into your life and fog everything with negativity until the work stalls. I have dealt with them as a writer, a photographer,…
BiasBreaking the Echo – A Series Conclusion
Across this series we walked through the echo chambers of social media, news, AI, academia, religion, publishing, geography, family, forums, influencers, and a weaponized TikTok. What started abstract turned out to be measurable, personal, and inescapable, mind control by consensus,…
HealthReal World Survival: Preparing Without Becoming a Prepper
Practical disaster preparedness from someone who lived through Northridge, Hurricane Milton, wildfires, and COVID. No bunkers. No paranoia. What works.