The first step of the aluminum ladder wobbles as I descend from the dock and into the cold May morning water of Lake Mitchell in...

There was a loss in my family last week. It was sudden. It was unexpected. It hurts. Questions form in the lawn of my mind like...

There is beauty in what appears to us as chaos. That is what I like about this picture. It’s an obstacle to beautiful things on the other...

Sunrise, May 25, 2023 A memory: It is nine p.m. on May 24, 2023. The sunset is crimson watercolor leeching into a blue canvas. I am...

My kids stood sullenly in the parking lot of the Brooksville, Florida Coney Island. After a twenty-hour road trip, we were in an...

I sat in my truck wearing a bathing suit, wool hat, and neoprene boots. It was 20 degrees Fahrenheit outside, the wind gusts were twenty...

Literally… this past autumn, my four-month-old golden retriever, Fin, found a thin paperback copy of Meditations  by Marcus Aurelius on...

If you’d ask why I decided to self-publish my novel, Prosperity , I’d give you a simple answer. My kids asked. In the summer of 2019,...

As my kids were getting ready for bed the other night, I played guitar while waiting to tuck them in. My youngest, Emerson, snuck in when...

Christmas Roast 2024 On December 21st, 2024, I turned forty. Four days later, I hosted dinner on Christmas day for my family, all fifteen...