Understand
Willfully.
I write what needs to be written. It won’t always be polished, and it won’t always be popular—but it will be true, and it will be done in love.
Real Writing is for anyone who believes in asking better questions, understanding deeper meaning, or making sense of the world we’re in while holding on to their humanity.
Mostly, you’ll read my thoughts on leadership, healing, or systems—and how we can respond with integrity, courage, and care.
Welcome to Real Writing, where I don’t pretend to have all the answers—
but I promise to tell the truth and remain humbly curious.
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Hello Bentonville City Council members, I am a resident of Benton County and a 6th generation resident of the Ozarks. My uncle, Sgt. Jimmie King, gave his life in service to the U.S. Army in 1944 overthrowing Hitler’s regime in Nazi Germany with the sincere belief that he was protecting my future right to exist,…
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Let’s talk about what matters → I sat down with the manager of a 300-employee office in blue-collar Arkansas. She had a new employee who was non-binary and intersex, who used they/them pronouns, and whose legal gender marker was “X” for “other.” She didn’t want to have to have this conversation. She wanted the employee to just show up…
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I was accepted into the MPH program at University of Washington in 2017. In March that year, though, I had a life-changing encounter with a medicine man. I asked him what he thought I should know about public health.
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