The December Crescendo
This has always been my favorite time of year, this magical valley between Thanksgiving and Christmas. As the air gets colder, my soul seems to...
Read more3 Reasons to be Grateful in Grief
To be clear: this is not a spin on the nauseating cliche that pain is some kind of privilege, or the hackneyed notion that the greater agony you...
Read moreA Benevolent Chaos
“I sought a personal entropy, hedged my bets that the world would break and remake me along with itself. I wanted to break, you see. And...
Read moreThe Empty Theater
“Life is more painful now than ever before. No dawn is innocent.” I wrote those words in the original manuscript of Even if...
Read moreConfessions of a Widower
When you open my book in February, you’ll find it has four parts. Part One is called The Hand and the Heart, Part Two is The Bend in...
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