My Best Advice
I spend a fair bit of time with first year college students. I am sometimes envious of them.
Aesop’s Heretofore Undiscovered Fables, August 2019
Moral: Take care, even when ye be in Haeyste, to not do that which woulde Waste Tyme later, for from Haeyste proceedeth only Waeyste.
First Dog-Cousin, Once Removed
Clark and Tessie came immediately to the back screen door, already vocalizing their hunger. No Lewis.
Things That Happened to Me in My First Two Weeks at Calvin
The memory of their faces in this moment is one of two life events that can make me cry on cue.
Lucille Bald
Have you ever noticed how intimate sitcoms are?
A Brief Account of Recent Miracles
I’m writing about the extraordinary.
Inevitable Forward Movement
How many other transitions in life are like this: inevitable, beautiful, a blessing, and a pain so deep its aches reverberate through generations.
Jes
Between the Jes I think I know and that other Jes, the inexhaustible Jes, the one who slips briefly into view whenever she offers an unexpected comment, a laugh out of place, a sideways glance.
The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Holy Land
You wait to feel something, see a vision, hear a heavenly voice. But it’s quiet. The tomb is empty.
Take a Shine
Light, after all, functions as both a particle and a wave.
