First Thoughts

Demystifying "emerging writer" publishing

Sep 5, 2024 •

On Joni Mitchell & Cultivating Openness

Dec 26, 2023 •

Toward Indecision

Jul 4, 2023 •

Love texts from the Gilded Age

May 23, 2023 •

The Sound of Where You Come From

May 18, 2023 •

If we don't bleed, it don't feel like a song

May 8, 2023 •

A Brief History of My Education

Apr 19, 2023 •

Geese, shapes in nature, shapes in art, decluttering the brain

Apr 14, 2023 •

Mar 29, 2023 •

Combating Cynicism: 10 reminders to self to keep the faith

Feb 24, 2023 •

Young love, aging love, my half-a-life love affair with Haruki Murakami, and the California International Marathon

Feb 7, 2023 •

Staying, a poem

Jan 23, 2023 •

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