by stacylcarlson | Jul 15, 2026 | Thoughts
As one who has rewatched Grey’s Anatomy at least 12 times, and a huge lover of Snow Patrol music, I have listened to “Chasing Cars” a million times over my speaker. Today was the first time I listened to it with headphones. At 0:20 in, there is a...
by stacylcarlson | Jun 5, 2026 | Thoughts
What do you do when you feel you are the odd man out? The weirdo. The person who says the off the wall thing that everyone raises an eyebrow at. What do you do when you aren’t anyone’s “I need to call!” person? Or if you are, it is only your...
by stacylcarlson | Apr 13, 2026 | Thoughts
It’s funny. How the perspective of one brother isn’t the same for the other. How the narrative was built for one, but not the other. How the truth is true, for one and not the other. When she met E, he was living with one foot in a world he loved and one...
by stacylcarlson | Mar 17, 2026 | Thoughts
The baskets of family photos sit in my office, carefully placed in ziplock bags and labeled. Grandma had the foresight to do this before her passing, and those photos have been passed down to me. They whisper. The last letter from her mother. Handwriting barely...
by stacylcarlson | Dec 22, 2025 | Thoughts
I miss my grandma. I say that almost every day, either out loud or in my head. I miss her.