He was dead. The backyard was overgrown. The palm trees had dropped their coconuts, leaving them to sprout helpless in the tall grass. We texted and our other neighbors texted, but there was no answer. My next door neighbor was gone. Extending from the back door of...

It's the latest trend gripping the hearts of American Christians. Well, to be fair, it's had human hearts in its claws for millennia. But it has taken on a strange flavor in these late modern times. It's hilarious and sad to see it play out in my life. This trend I've...

Love fiercely. Because this all ends. I saw these words written in a low-quality jpg image, shared on Facebook. Shared by someone who, I would say, considers himself a sophisticated New Yorker. A person seeking an “optimal state of being,” as long as it has nothing to...

I am away. I am apart. It's a weird mindset that I can only truly get into when I'm away from what I call home. For me it was first felt, full weight, when I was sent away to camp as a kid. It was not until the night pressed hard against me that I felt the vastness of...

In what hell have I steeped myself? Like a strong tea, with twisting and turning leaves bleeding out underwater, in heat above the boiling point. The truth is, I seem to be in the process of taking the scalding dip. And I've seen where it ends. It is a submersion that...

I am a person with contradicting feelings - bright joy and biting pain, warm contentment and rattling loneliness - you know, I'm fully human like you. I have opinions, ideas, beliefs, thoughts that change and contradict; I want to write about all of these here. But...