Half-Remembered Ghosts When I write, it is usually toward a specific end. Typically, that end is publication. It is a rare occasion that I would write…
Welcome Home I live with absence every day. My son tells me a story and I hear tiny fragments of my brother, Jason, in the tale. He’s been gone so long that sometimes I have to focus on a memory just to recall his voice. A song will play on the radio that I recall singing along with on my dad’s knee as we rocked next to the behemoth wooden stereo that filled my childhood with so much music. He’s near in those moments…just not near enough.
Love with Abandon. My wife and I have had a few conversations with (4 year-old) Jacob lately about boundaries. He's always running over to strangers in the…
Not all the superheroes are at Marvel and DC! My wife, Heidi, is a superhero. No, it’s true. She doesn’t wear a cape or fly (that I’m aware of!) but I’m fairly convinced…
Q&A 2015: E-books,The Process, and Things To Come Why/when/how do you write? “Why” is actually the hardest of those three questions…or, at least, the answer is a bit more ethereal. I write…
Poetry Lab: Week Four This is our fourth Poetry Lab and the first time we focus on a single poem instead of the…
Poetry Lab: Week Three Greetings, all. For this Lab, we’ll take a look at Nautical Terms (and How Best to Love Them) and…
Poetry Lab: Week Two Today, we’ll take a look at two more pieces from Pearl Dandy, “Loretta” and “A Poem for Children.” Both pieces are a bit absurd…
Poetry Lab: Week One I sometimes think poetry is a mystic art. It is the conjuring of words and forms, meter and (sometimes) rhyme to transport—intellectually and emotionally…
A Letter of Appreciation To the offices of Psych: c/o Shawn Spencer (AKA Byron Bojengles III, Black, Shawn Ulfeninderheine, William Zane, Levon Tostig, Maniac Maniac 19, Shawn Spenstar,…