Unfiltered
Unfiltered
No lessons, no answers — just what's true. A raw, unfiltered column that runs every Monday: whatever actually happened that week, thought through in real time, without the polish.
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Monday #1
The Job You Hate Might Be the Job That Makes You Some mornings I wake up and the first thing I feel…
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Monday #2 — The Weight You Don’t Put Down
I haven’t called my mother in six weeks. Not because anything happened. That’s the part I can’t explain to anyone. Nothing happened.…
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Monday #3 — She’s More of a Man Than He’ll Ever Be
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 3 I know a woman. She wakes up before anyone else. Makes breakfast. Gets two kids…
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Monday #4 — The Anger That Has Nowhere to Go
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 4 I am so fucking angry. Not at anything specific. That’s the worst part. If it…
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Monday #5 — Good Men Don’t Manipulate. They Just Are.
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 5 Let me be clear about something before I say anything else. I am not a…
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Monday #7 — The Thing No One Claps For
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 7 Nobody saw it. That’s the thing. Nobody was there, nobody was watching, nobody asked about…
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Monday #8 — Not Yet.
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 8 Sitting outside again tonight, second beer, and my head’s back on the same loop it’s…
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Monday #9 — No One’s Keeping Score.
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 9 I need to say something and I don’t care if it makes me sound bitter,…
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Monday #10 — Right Now, Anyway.
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 10 Been sitting on this all week and I don’t even want to be careful about…
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Monday #11 — The Whole World, and He Doesn’t Know It.
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 11 Watched my dog sleep tonight, twitching through some dream I’ll never get access to, and…
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Monday #12 — Even the Butterfly.
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 12 Sitting here tonight with one of the mild ones. Not the bad kind. I want…
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Monday #13 — The Only Therapy Some of Us Actually Show Up For.
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 13 Racked the bar. Sat down. Just stared at the floor for I don’t even know…
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