Sitemap - 2023 - The Courage to Live It

On Losing a Puppy, Seeing a Planet, and the Peculiar Nature of Winter Rain

Five of My Favorite Books from 2023

On Turning 47

Forget the Audience

On Colliding With a Deer

In Which Writing is Like Driving Through the Night

Can You Help Me?

So Much Depends on a Batch of Pancakes

The Sound of Changing Things

For the Writer Who is Not Currently Writing

Beams of Light

I Need Your Musical Genius

Thoughts on Sons

The Beginning of the End

A Man Named Brownie

When You Forget What Someone Looks Like

Going About the World, Finding Wonderful Hours

Our Family's 65-Year-Old Tradition

So You Want to be a Writer

One Bright Star

Maybe It's Time to Let the Old Ways Die

The Baby in Our Family is Seven

Finding My Way Back

A Place We've Gone Every Year for the Last Eighteen Years

The Malfunction

Never Go To Bed Angry, Don't Watch Screens at Bedtime, and Other Various Pieces of Advice that Occasionally Fall Apart in the Face of Real Life

When There Are Things I Want to Tell You

Three Nights and Two Days

The Most Encouraging Thing I've Ever Created

The Little Boat

That Thing I Never Should Have Done

Your Name Means "Light Healer"

Don't You Know?

On the Road Again

What if this is It?

Beyond Rejection, Gratefulness

On the Road Again

What They Never Tell You

The Malfunction - A Short Story

"Hope is Now the Long Wait"

The Good is Close at Hand

I Confess that I Painted the Green Table

Three Tables

How Quickly Life Moves On

From Good Friday to a Far Green Country

Becoming an Artist in Your 40s

Embracing a Life of Grief

The Thing I Didn't Know I'd Miss

Jup

We Need You to Sing

A Car Accident and New Ways to Pray

Some Thoughts on A.I. and Our "Utter Inwardness"

Living a Life That Has No Rational Explanation

On Driving Uber for a Transgender Sex Worker

The Strange Inheritance of Social Media

The Old Rideshare Confessional Days

The Value of Embarking on Impossible Journeys

The First Time I Got Drunk

Returning to "Faithfulness versus Distraction"

After Two Weeks Off Social Media

When Maile Told Me What Was Wrong With My Writing

If You're Worried This Might Be All There Is

Paying Attention to Life's Notice Board

The Sky is the Color of Missing Someone

Asking For What We Need