Indelible Ink

When the Well Runs Dry

How I Lived Through a Year of Writer’s Block

Life in Death’s Wake

Mourning a Loved One

The Unspoken “For Me” at the End of Every “You’re Too Much”

The affirmation I used to heal from a…

The Tyranny of Useless Rules

Seriously, who makes this stuff up?

Lessons on Letting Go

Surviving Change & Loss

Echoes from the Past: Trauma, Hope, and Jacket Potatoes

Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy took control of my body, but not my promise for the future

God is Great, Beer is Good and People are Stupid

My life’s philosophy

One Nation, Worlds Apart

Here in the high desert of New Mexico, Washington has never felt more distant

The Price of Being a Piddler in a Goal-Oriented World

I can’t help it — I’ve always been this way.

Moving Up to the Third Floor

A look at a life well-lived

You Didn’t Really Make a New Year’s Resolution.

Did you?

I Know How This All Turns Out

A strategy for letting go

Love, Light, and Atheism

We’re not the doomed or the damned, we just don’t believe in your gods.

In Defense of Daydreaming

Leave science out of it

Don’t Ask Me To Forgive Trump Voters

You’re asking too much while they’re doing too little

How I Lost my Child on the Great Wall of China

Nothing tops the adrenalin rush of searching for a…

I’m Gonna Make it Through This Year if it Kills Me

A stream of consciousness monologue

The Scent of Thanksgiving

Finding gratitude when we’re apart this holiday season

I Monitored the Polls in Pennsylvania and Left Feeling Empty