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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won a historic victory. After learning about it, I found myself in tears for most of the morning. I didn’t feel happiness, or elation. I wasn’t sad. I [...]

Writing is a deeply individual process. Grammar, narrative structure, character development – these things can be taught. Process, however, is personal. It cannot be taught. Process is excavated [...]

Another voyage around the sun. In 2018, I spent my birthday on a midnight flight from French Polynesia to Easter Island, and met my first moai. In 2019, I spent my birthday flying from New [...]

I’ve discovered the assistance I can render in a pandemic is minimal. I’m self-isolating. I’m wishing karmic wealth for essential workers. I’m checking in with family and friends as my deadlines [...]

“At any minute it is what we are and are doing, not what we plan to be and do that counts.” – J. R. R. Tolkien I’m angry. Angry to the point of having headaches. To the [...]

“Maybe everything. End up with nothing.” – Jeff Noon Clinging to a rock wall opens up opportunities to assess your choices. And to make choices: choose your direction. Choose to forge ahead. [...]

“The world is good despite my sighs.” – Nikos Kazantzakis Chris and I have both spent time in Greece in our younger years. When Chris was between six and nine years old, he [...]

“Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of [...]

I have never felt the presence of time in a place like this before. The Orkney Islands are permeated with time. It washes over the purple heather fields. It winds down the narrow stone streets. [...]

“Take what you want, says God, and pay for it.” – M.M. Kaye It is the nature of choices that one precludes another. I resent this because there is nothing more frustrating to me than a path not [...]