Progress isn’t linear, stack mates. This essay, memoir, written in July ‘25, explains how I was pulled to creative writing (from academia) and how depression recovery is a lifelong process. Thought new subscribers and old might like some context.

Wolf, Hemingway, Poe, Kafka, Plath, Styron, Tolstoy, Keats, Wallace, Fitzgerald, King, Rowling, Rice… in good company, I am, we are.