The Weight of Almost
Life, love, and the weight of all the "Almosts" in your life...
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Darkness Falls
I wrote this poem thirty-five years ago, in the depths of my addiction. I thought I’d lost it forever when most of my things were stolen about twenty years ago. Lucky for me, I found a long-lost digital copy of it.
When I created this, I w...
Substa-gram
I’m going to be mean for a minute.
I’m normally not. I try not to be anyway. I genuinely love people, and I love the people on Substack even more than most.
But a few weeks ago, I posted about writing from the heart of real. About writin...
America... Unfinished
This coming Saturday is July 4th, 2026. America’s Semiquincentennial. Independence Day. Two hundred and fifty years.
I remember America’s Bicentennial fondly. I was ten years old and the year, of course, was 1976. There was quite a hubbub...
Why I Am Also Writing Fiction
I am writing fiction now.
Not as a replacement for my memoir work. I don’t think I could give up memoir even if I wanted to. It matters too much to me. But I am also writing fiction, because I’m discovering that some real experiences can b...
The Shows Were Great. We Were Not.
I promised someone almost a year ago that I would tell this story.
She’s probably forgotten by now.
She didn’t ask again, and no one held me to it. But the promise stayed there, quietly embarrassing me, because the story is funny only if...
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Writer. Father. Recovering addict. Still healing. I write about the women who shaped me, the damage I’ve done, and the hard work of becoming someone worth loving. This is where I tell the truth.
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