This is How You Will Heal the Wound
This little essay came to me more as a dream or a prayer, and people seem to like it, so I thought I’d share it
And another thing
Some of you may enjoy my radical suggestion in today’s Wall Street Journal that the First Amendment doesn’t authorize teachers to indoctrinate children. It’s getting
Some more things
Well, it’s been a hell of a summer. Pestilence, economic destruction, bitter partisanship, and now, the politicians descend from their lairs to commence the quadrennial
A few things
I’ve published a few things over the past few days that perhaps you’ll like: This is about a largely forgotten Oklahoma curmudgeon who foretold both
Writing it slant
Here’s a little story I wrote about how my homeless alcoholic brother taught me to love a poem. If you’re not sure it’s worth the
And now for something completely different
Some of you might like my paean to the glories of outdoor peeing over at Front Porch Republic. I sideswipe Freud and Dear Abby, take
Your semi-quarterly culture survey
A writer for Popular Mechanics, covering a Christmas story to which I was tangentially related, referred to this site some weeks ago as my “now-defunct
Worth a read
As many of you know, I’ve been focused on my Intentional Fathering project, and writing little beyond that which doesn’t wind up in a notebook
Intentional Fathering
I’ve done something I really had no business doing, and in that same spirit of foolishness, I want to tell you about it. I’ve met
Set them on fire
The game works like this: Set your sights on someone whose politics you hate. This is the easy part. Everything is politics now, and everything
Bare shoulders and barren hearts
If you follow the tempests that froth over Twitter’s teapot on the regular, you may have seen the teeth-gnashing inspired by this Catholic priest’s tweet
The weak link
Six days ago: an ambulance ride with my 11 year-old to a trauma center near the South Carolina coliseum where he and 2,000 other youngsters
