I wrote Aporia, the first Young Adult record while living in Jacksonville in 2011. I returned to Tallahassee, recorded and…

I was present when my daughter was born on November 23rd, 2009 in Tarpon Springs, Florida. I took directions from my cellphone to the hospital from my hotel. I had never been there before, never been to a prenatal appointment, not been to Tarpon Springs since Sarah moved there from Tallahassee, 3…

On Sunday last week, in the early evening we heard a knock at the door. Tandy barked. Then she barked again. I said to Grace, “Would you take her in the other room so I can open the door?” “She’s fine,” Grace said. I grunted. “What?” She said. “Would you take her in the other room? I don’t want her to…

I look out the convex oval window of a plane in mid-flight, in what would be total darkness if not for the flashing glow of the wing lights and the twinkling of the towns below. The first distinction, a yellow-grey sliver, rounded as the horizon appears from such a height, splits the blackness and then some of…

I was reading a tongue twister book to Sophia. We were lying in the guest bed, the one she sleeps on when she is here. It occurs to me now that everything about this bed has a history. I purposefully neglect to think about this too specifically, but the stuff is old and each piece had a long separate life…