WRITING

Beginning Again At Fifty-Five

In which I attempt to calculate the remaining…

CULTURE

I Know Why Rural Populations Are Vulnerable To The Lies Of Tyrants

CULTURE

Love, from Ghibli’s Perspective

What Studio Ghibli characters teach us about…

LIFE

Cycling Through the Heart of Rural American Fascism

We brushed shoulders with…

LIFE LESSONS + CULTURE

I Was Naked in a Public Hot Tub and Got a Philosophy Lesson

POLITICS

An Idiot’s Guide To What’s Wrong With America

Why so many critics are wrong about how to fix what ails America and what it would take to actually do it

LIFE

I Was A Love-Slave In The Caribbean

Chasing after a boy who couldn’t be caught

LIFE

Spreading Myself Thin

There are times I’m a disappointment and I accept that

RELATIONSHIPS

How I Detached from My Wife and Learned What Real Love Is

Love is not what we think it is

MEMOIR

The View From Here

A fringe-dweller’s story about making a contribution to…