Joel Hughes

I tend to burn the candle at both ends and often in the middle. My wife and I started seeing a marriage counselor a couple months back to help us...

I heard the results of a survey 25 years ago and it’s haunted me ever since. The survey results were said as part of a sermon I heard on a...

I like to think of myself as a manly man. When we moved to Oregon last year, I applied for jobs at a couple of companies. I didn’t get the...

I had a mental image yesterday of how I feel in life. I pictured a piece of twine rope frayed at both ends. I wasn’t even thinking about anything, in...

I think one of the most dominant feelings for those in Cancerland is feeling alone. At least it is for us. There are different types of “aloneness,” but here, I’m...

Yesterday, I felt pissed off a few times at my dear wife. She was too slow getting ready to get out of the house. She was on her phone too...

I felt it the other day. I feel it more than I wish. It often stirs right below the surface of my moving demeanor. Frustration. Okay, let’s not sugarcoat it...

I know what abnormal feels like. I know how awful it feels to think that everyone around you sees you as messed up, broken, weak, and abnormal. Whether or not...

I woke up this morning feeling fear. That’s pretty typical for me. I’m worried about taxes coming up, about the credit card bill we haven’t paid for almost three months...

In my last article, I shared some of my deep, daily fears as a caregiver husband to a wife living with stage 4 breast cancer. I ended it by saying...

Growing up, I lived with little to no fear. I was the happy-go-lucky kid, well-loved, and well-taken care of. I did not really feel intense throat gripping fear until I...

When I got remarried in 2014, I never imagined my new blissful, hope-filled chapter would look like this. Several years before, I went through a grueling divorce that wrecked me...