For Whom the Blog Tolls

Hey all, This is a collection of links to a few things I've written in 2014 that I'm especially proud of. I've written quite a...

Writing is inherently a kind of masturbatory act, one that far more people than you would ever guess engage in, and one that you never want ...

Today I took, I think, the most beautiful bus ride I've been on since moving to Seattle. It was the same southbound route that I've...

Few things bother me more than the deluge of posts on every facet of social media that claim “faith in humanity: restored.” What a bleak out...

In 2008 I earned the rank of Eagle Scout as a member of Troop 51 in Fayetteville, New York. I have bragged about this in the past, but this...

The ship rose out of the water taller than anything Solomon could have imagined, taller even than the highest trees he had climbed on his f...

The Marshallese, being a family-oriented society with little in the way of available land space, almost always bury their dead at home. Just...