
Meditations on the nature of narrative, and on what the narratives we consume and choose can tell us about ourselves.
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It’s been a minute since I’ve entered new words in this space. But it’s not because I haven’t had ideas for what to write about. But instead, during the past few months, I’ve recycled story after story after story about who I am. Reliving m...
Let me set the scene: Me sitting alone in at home in a rocking chair, in our basement family room, the TV on in front of me. My partner and children are away, and I sit in the light falling through the windows, playing online solitaire on m...
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Mike Tyson
In my last post, I described myself as “an altar boy in the middle of a screwball comedy,” a passing reference to one of my favorite film genres, and I knew when I tos...
As a former writing teacher, I find the amount and variety of writing advice that shows up on Substack fascinating. Well, some of it’s about writing; a good bit really deals with marketing, targeting an audience, promoting your work, etc. A...
Forty-two years ago this summer, I walked into a bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky, just only a few blocks from the apartment where I stayed during a summer internship, and just this side of the art house movie theater where I frequented....
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Writer, teacher, partner, parent, living with anxiety and depression, trying to stay awake in the present
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