Former Career Fire and EMS Lieutenant-Specialist, Writer, and Master Photographer.

Tag: Darlene Schoen


  • Where My Name Never Had To Be Explained

    I found myself back in my hometown again this week, back in the house where it all started, spending time with Darlene—my childhood best friend, my code friend, the only person left on this planet who knows the whole damn story and stayed anyway. Darlene and I were thick as thieves back then, always up…

  • The Places That Made Me, And The People Who Never Left

    Some mornings, you don’t wake up so much as you surface—pulled out of a half-dream, half-memory place where the weight of the past is heavier than the day ahead. Today was one of those mornings. I woke up already sad, already somewhere else, and I let it happen. The playlist was Bear’s Den and Bruce…