Friendship & Family

June 13, 2022/Friendship & Family/7 min read

A Letter I Should Have Written Long Ago

April 18, 2022/Boundaries/5 min read

Setting Boundaries With People & Things In your Life

March 22, 2022/Grief & Mortality/7 min read

This Is A Reminder To Live Life

January 20, 2021/Grief & Mortality/4 min read

Temporary Forevers.

September 16, 2025/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/3 min read

How to Support Someone Who Is Unemployed: What Helps vs. What Hurts

7 months. That's how long the third stint of my unemployment journey is lasting at the moment. I've been grateful to finally dip my toe into consulting, but so far these have been temporary…

May 9, 2024/Mental Health & Self-Worth/4 min read

Q&A - May 9 2024

As promised, back with another short Q&A based on some of the self-reflection questions asked by WNRS we're not really strangers. Today's questions revolve around my past, and how it…

May 1, 2024/Purpose & Personal Growth/3 min read

Q&A - May 1 2024

Looks like I lied back in February when I said that I would try to write more; as I haven't sat and typed words on this blog in almost 3 months. Well, rather than dwell on this, I figured…

December 13, 2022/Purpose & Personal Growth/6 min read

Tyrell Wrapped: 2022 in Review

If I had to describe this year in a sentence? An absolute whirlwind of emotions, lessons, and building blocks for what I think might just be a pretty exciting future ahead. I've discussed…

September 16, 2022/Life Notes/10 min read

6 Years in Los Angeles

Why hello there. I know it's been two months since I last wrote anything, and do I ever have some updates... but those will come in time. Instead, I wanted to write a reflection piece given…

June 13, 2022/Friendship & Family/7 min read

A Letter I Should Have Written Long Ago

This past weekend I began my next phase of social hibernation in an attempt to finish my book's first draft so that I can start to search out editors to help me polish it up. One of the…

April 18, 2022/Boundaries/5 min read

Setting Boundaries With People & Things In your Life

\\This is an excerpt from a chapter on boundary setting in my upcoming book\\ You're going to have people or things in your life that probably make it easy to let your guard down, which is a…

March 22, 2022/Grief & Mortality/7 min read

This Is A Reminder To Live Life

I'm not exactly sure how to start this one off, but it's apparent to me that despite how many times I write or say something... I always need a reminder to remember what's important in life…

March 26, 2021/Purpose & Personal Growth/9 min read

Letter To My Younger Self, part two

You may be asking, where the heck is part one? Well... I wrote it many many years ago herehttps://viewsfromamaninthe6ix.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/a-letter-to-my-younger-self/. I figured it…

January 20, 2021/Grief & Mortality/4 min read

Temporary Forevers.

Time has been a topic on my mind quite a bit lately, especially as we all seem to have a lot more of it on our hands since last year. I've noticed that as a general rule of thumb, the…

June 29, 2019/Friendship & Family/12 min read

I Love You.

I Love You. Three words that hold such a powerful meaning that can completely change someone's day. Completely uplift and make someone feel so wanted. Yet these can also be some of the three…

April 16, 2018/Mental Health & Self-Worth/10 min read

28 Years of Anger - The Journey So Far

I’ve wanted to reflect on some events both recent and not so recent that I have gone through.... with this, I’m hoping that anybody else going through similar emotions can read what I've…

February 14, 2017/Friendship & Family/3 min read

Nana.

Today's a day that I've been dreading for a while... my Nana finally passed away. It's been a mix of emotions this morning since reading a Facebook comment yes, I found out via a public…

December 30, 2015/Grief & Mortality/2 min read

Closing Out 2015.

I had originally thought that I wanted to cover a variety of topics for this year's blog posts... but the more I thought about it, the more I figured I should keep things concise. If there…

December 11, 2015/Grief & Mortality/4 min read

Nate.

So, this isn't a topic that I have delved too much into this year but I felt it was long overdue. Here goes. Who was Nate? There are a ton of words you could use to describe him. I don't…

December 18, 2014/Life Notes/4 min read

Concluding 2014

I did have a third category of discussing things that I've learned from being in an advertising career for the last three years, but as I am currently an active job seeker - I will refrain…

December 16, 2014/Friendship & Family/4 min read

Friendship

What a year it has been for friendships... let's start with the harsh fact that I realized this year: life happens. Well that's quite a generic statement, what do you mean Tyrell? What I…