The Year of Fear Are you afraid? 2020 has given us reason for fear, particularly those of us in the U.S.: …

For a while I’ve felt an ache in my intellectual bones, an itch in the brain that just won’t go away on its own. I’ve decided to scratch that itch and see where it leads, but it’s not something I can do alone. I’m going to become a writer! When I was seven, I penned a…

He sat across from me, arms crossed and regarded me dispassionately from beneath the brim of his dark grey fedora. His tailored, pinstriped suit matched the hat, and he wore a red silk tie, the very picture of a 1940s mobster with a dash of modern flair. Six months ago…

Why I sometimes pay attention to Twitter, Facebook, or Medium Amidst the morass of information, expressed feelings, statistics, and quotes proferred by the Twitters, Facebooks, Reddits, and Mediums of the world wide web, it is occasionally possible to spot something of incredible beauty, something so rare and elusive that upon encountering it, I have been stunned into slack-jawed silence. What…