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Welcome to a month of shorter essays!

Lessons from a much-delayed project

Jul 27, 2021

I’ve been grappling lately with the question, "Why write at all?" These little essays, dashed off in just about an hour each, sometimes feel like mere…

Jul 20, 2021

Great relationships are built on copious amounts of shared, belly-busting, teary-making laughter. It seems obvious, but the best friends are those you…

Jul 12, 2021

Writing, drawing, and all kinds of creative work sometimes feel like mining for gemstones. Heroic amounts of backbreaking digging with pickaxe, hammer…

Jul 7, 2021

A tiny boy born two months premature has become a rather less tiny man, sitting at a desk, typing, pausing for thought, resuming. It hardly seems…

Jul 5, 2021

Children live almost entirely in their bodies, feeling and grasping and experiencing the world directly: eating when hungry, playing when bored…

Jun 15, 2021

(The Thinker in The Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin.) I've always seemed to have an unfortunate amount of trouble telling the difference between what I…

Jun 14, 2021

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