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A Ramble After Jane Austen

What a comedy legend taught me about productivity and creativity

Let’s start a conversation about mental health

The pros and cons from someone who’s lived it

A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

It's one of the most poignantly meta and unexpectedly relatable books l've read

What’s it like to spend time with an aging parent? Absurd, poignant, bewildering, and beautiful — it’s a lot of things.

A Skeptic’s Guide to Love, Loss, and Death

Being a perfectionist means I throw a lot of roadblocks in my way. Here’s how I’m overcoming them.

Faygo is an excuse for another rambling dog story. He may not be long for this world — I think it’s cancer, and he needs his story told.

Lessons learned from ground zero in a professional studio

And why that may soon be a relic of history

The political landscape is teetering on the edge

The world is infinite, and I am not.

A spoiler-free review of the book, “Long After We Are Gone”

What happens after you write your masterpiece?

A review of ‘Calling In’ by Loretta Ross

The Words That Remade America by Gary Wills

A Review of The Heart of the Matter: The God Focused School by Frank Hamrick

I’ve read Steven Pressfield’s columns for years.

On reading Amélie Nothomb’s first novel

Month of January 2025

Dorothy Parker introduced this world to the sharper art of criticism, with aplomb and grace such that her victims rarely felt the blade.

It’s the lack of hope that kills you.