January 2, 2026. It’s been awhile since I last posted, and I have news! To get right to the point, immediately after the last election I spent a stunned week feeling like a smacked cabbage, then put aside the [...]

Late March, 2025: By now, we should believe any promises made by Donald Trump and Elon Musk to cause pain. The sheer scope and carelessness of their sweeping changes are almost unbelievable, and the excessive and prolonged stress and [...]

When I was ten years old, I decided that sailing a small boat across a big ocean was a superb idea. It’s not something you tend to confess later on to, say, your high school guidance counselor when discussing [...]

In thinking about my post from yesterday, I did not mention the nation's grief or my own, at the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The fact that I did not reflects the first stage of grief: denial. I [...]

Upon reading the leaked Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade, I got a little upset that it relied on the opinions of a 17th century judge who liked to burn women as witches, so, if you're like me, [...]

Boating season is here! There are a lot of boats all around us, but is anyone aware that those who go out on the water for pleasure have a serious identity problem? What we call ourselves speaks volumes, maybe [...]

On the morning of Sunday, September 9, 2001, precisely 48 hours before American Airlines Flight 77 would fly this same airspace, I was on an Alaska Airlines flight making its final approach to Washington D.C.’s National Airport. There I [...]

To my wonderful subscribers, thank you. This braided essay was recently published in Rainshadow Journal, but I also wanted to share it with you. Dec 31, 2020: It was foggy this morning, and temps have not dipped below freezing [...]

As I write this, a new president and vice-president have just been inaugurated, and like many, I’m emotional about it. There’s relief, of course, but also much more. Four years ago on election night in 2016, I was sitting [...]

I wish whoever said, “May you live in interesting times” was alive today, to get a nice big gulp of his own advice. Fun fact: Does anyone remember it was a leap year? It had 29 days in February, 200 [...]