First day
My first blog post, of many to come.
6/11/20262 min read
# Welcome to My Brain (It's a Bit of a Mess)
Today I struggled to get up.
Not in the dramatic, "life is hopeless" way people sometimes mean when they say that. Just literally, my body and brain didn't cooperate first thing this morning. That happens. I've learned to work with it.
I'm a full-time dad to six kids. I'm divorced. And I'm living with a brain injury that colors every single day in ways most people wouldn't expect. Some days it makes things harder. Some days, honestly, it makes things strangely beautiful.
This blog is going to be both of those things.
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## The Way I Live
Here's something about me: I live completely in the moment. Not in the Instagram-wellness, hashtag-mindfulness way. I mean it's just how my brain works now.
Arguments don't stick. Grudges dissolve. If I choose to let something go, it's gone. There's a freedom in that I never asked for and probably wouldn't have chosen, but I've made it mine.
My kids get a dad who is present. Fully, totally, sometimes exhaustingly present. And I love them more than I ever thought I was capable of loving anything.
They come first. Always. That's not a sacrifice. That's just the truth.
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## Why I'm Writing This
This blog is going to be all over the place. I'm telling you that upfront, because that's how I live, and pretending otherwise would be a lie before we even got started.
Some posts will be about parenting. Some will be about the weird, frustrating, occasionally hilarious reality of navigating the world with a brain injury. Some will just be me processing a hard day in the only way that helps: writing it down.
If you're going through something hard and you need proof that pushing on is possible, I hope you find it here.
I'm not an inspiration poster. I'm just a guy who gets up every morning, even when it's a struggle, because six kids are counting on me.
And that's enough.
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Follow along. It won't always be pretty. But it'll always be real.