"If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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when god spoke
is god even alive or just something
made up and, if real, does god speak and
if so what is god saying and can i even hear
and what if the voice i think is god is nothing
more than the wind or my imagination or
the bowl of cereal...
Something We Can Walk Through
I think the leaves somehow know
what’s coming, that we approach
their season of dying. How still
they wait on this warm September
morning, how unmoving and rich
and green, how resigned
the heavy branches on which
they ha...
All of This From a Hibiscus
this morning the hibiscus bloomed, as you
know, a blood-red August wound unfiltered,
reminding me of your father
because it is, as you also know, a cutting
from his plant, the one he was so tender
towards the summer he died...
How to Write After a Summer Like This
On death and birth and weddings and books and anniversaries and sadness
I’ve started this post a dozen times in my head, but it’s never made it onto the screen, not until now, because how do I tell the story of the last half of a summer th...
Aching for Home
Photo by Valentin Lacoste via Unsplash
My earliest memory of water:
a blue plastic kiddie pool nearly melting
against the Texas border, the middle of
a dusty, scorching Laredo summer, a lizard
tilting its head, taking me in. My...
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Living and writing in Lancaster, PA, with my wife and six kids. Co-Owner of Nooks Bookstore and Gallery with my wife, Maile. Author of The Weight of Memory and other novels. I think you should keep writing.
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