
Essays on kindness, pop culture, and occasionally poop. Cancer survivor x2. Father of awesome daughters. Four-time Best American Essayist.
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Friends, a quick note: Since my Substack live conversation with I’ve been thinking about a phrase she used: quiet contemplation. She said she likes the “quiet contemplation” essays too, meaning quiet little essays about quiet little things...
Dear friends,
I have my yearly cancer scan later today so I thought I’d spend the morning building myself up. Sometimes anxiety sets in—scanxiety as us survivors call it—so today I’m going to focus on how awesome I am.
I’m smart. I’m a p...
When I was a college professor I showed the documentary Food, Inc. to students as part of a visual argument assignment. We watched it over several days and afterward held discussions to analyze the themes, but mostly I remember two little g...
For those of you who subscribe to both my pages I apologize for the cross post. But Jenn read this and told me to post it here too, and I (almost) always listen to her.
As always, thanks for being here.
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In Basic Training there were these dudes we called broke dick. These were guys who got there and then decided they didn’t want to be soldiers. They didn’t like the Army or the fighting they foresaw in their uncertain futures. They didn’t li...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Four-time Best American Essayist. Newest essay collection: Melt With Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils
On Substack: @Writer-ish and @Drafts, Deals & Detours. Also: Bestselling novelist, published in 11 languages. And: Micro prose author, essayist, editor, teacher. Super proud of: Poetry Society of America fellowship. Writes from: Island of Hawaiʻi.
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