Each week, I pull together a Short Stack of the things that stood out – something I made, something I read or watched, an experience that left a small but noticeable impression in the week. Not a grand unifying theme, not a comprehensive recap. Just the bits that felt worth pocketing

I’ve been trying to share more of myself this year, as you may have noticed, in a variety of ways. I started posting content again to my friends via Facebook and Instagram. I restarted my website, with longer form writing than I used to produce on my old blog.

Most of the time, people use birthdays New Year’s Day as the milestone dates when they look back over the previous year. For me, Thanksgiving is making for an easier demarcation point for reflection. When Thanksgiving 2023 rolled around, I was in a very bad place: * I was miserable

It started out so well. When I restarted my website last month, I imagined the stories pouring out of me – a steady stream, each one meaningful and thought-provoking and worth your time to read. No little fluff posts. I wanted the pieces to be longer in form and more insightful

Preface This post started from a much different place than where it wound up going. It took me the better part of a week to write. I poured more of myself on the page than intended. The more that it got uncomfortable to write, the more it felt important to

My life is pretty damn good right now. It's not perfect by any means – whose life is actually perfect? All in all, though, my life is swell. I know I'm one of the lucky ones, in the grand scheme of things. I'm six months

No, not really a ghost. And I'm not back from the dead, either. It just feels like it, based on my woeful lack of blogging over the past decade. When you've published exactly two posts since the Obama administration, you can't really call what