Any Advice?

  This is a game I played recently where I was leading as black, then blew it.  I had it analyzed, but I was wondering if anyone had any human advice to give me.  Thanks in advance.

A few things that caught my "human" eye. Your Knight on b8 didn't get into the game until it was too late. An early Nc6 and your Q-side pawn storm looked like it could do a lot of damage. Even 24...Na6 was better than a5, in my opinion. That ways, you could have avoided the rook-trade (doubling your rooks) and not have surrended the open file the way you had to in the end.

Bxe3 was bad because you are trading a useful bishop for his d1 knight that was just squatting around. Sure, a pawn is a pawn, but not when you are clearly dominating and can build up a sound attack. Once again, let him break the tension in this position ... probably will make a new weakness doing it, not you who should be keeping it tense given how awkward his pieces are.

Thanks for the response Shivsky.  I'll remember your advice about keeping the tension next time I am in a similar situation.

I've been learning that more often than not that you don't play the tension-breaker move unless you have analyzed it through to where you think that after the pieces/pawns are traded, the position is definitely good for you.  The same applies to break moves (moves where pawns challenge pawns) ... I go over my database of games played when I was 200+ points weaker and am shocked at how often the game shifts in my opponent's favor after I play an incorrect pawn-break or tension-breaker.

Stronger players keep telling me to maintain tension, to bring more force to the central area where the tension is. In your case, developing the Knight on b8 would make your party complete.

A very clear example (where I messed up for the same darn reasons that I'm preaching here) in one of my recent games  is. See the difference between the tension-breaker 1...e3?? and the tension-adding (and game-winning) 1...Kc4!!!

Of course => remember it is silly  to maintain tension if there is a tactical shot that just wins the game outright.  Tension makes better sense when you are better, but not game-winning better.

 maybe you gave up the e-file?