There is beauty in what appears to us as chaos. That is what I like about this picture. It’s an obstacle to beautiful things on the other...

Sunrise, May 25, 2023 A memory: It is nine p.m. on May 24, 2023. The sunset is crimson watercolor leeching into a blue canvas. I am...

My kids stood sullenly in the parking lot of the Brooksville, Florida Coney Island. After a twenty-hour road trip, we were in an...

I sat in my truck wearing a bathing suit, wool hat, and neoprene boots. It was 20 degrees Fahrenheit outside, the wind gusts were twenty...

Literally… this past autumn, my four-month-old golden retriever, Fin, found a thin paperback copy of Meditations  by Marcus Aurelius on...

If you’d ask why I decided to self-publish my novel, Prosperity , I’d give you a simple answer. My kids asked. In the summer of 2019,...

As my kids were getting ready for bed the other night, I played guitar while waiting to tuck them in. My youngest, Emerson, snuck in when...

Christmas Roast 2024 On December 21st, 2024, I turned forty. Four days later, I hosted dinner on Christmas day for my family, all fifteen...