Be Here. Now
On Impatience, Injury, and The Practice of Presence I used to say that the universe conspired to have me in airports constantly because I...
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- Mar 6, 2021
On the Bust of York
Or, Why Art Matters Not all pilgrimages involve ordeals. Sometimes, all we have to do is decide something is meaningful enough to trek up...
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- Feb 20, 2021
The Ice of Change
On Runes, Solidarity, and Not Being Okay “what didn’t you do to bury mebut you forgot that I was a seed” — Dinos Christianopoulos,...
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- Dec 27, 2020
Clearing the Old Year
I wanted to end 2020 by talking a bit about space clearing. We’re going to start with this meditation about clearing the space closest to...
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- Dec 2, 2020
What is Perfect, Anyway?
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of...
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- Aug 16, 2020
Creation in Times of Strife
And then… The slow return to the sense of feet on ground. The slow return to the sound of birdsong, or cars, or laughter. The slow...
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- Mar 24, 2020
Dismantle Omelas: Build Something New
These are times of hope. These are times of rage. These are times of possibility. These are times of despair. In The Ones Who Walk Away...
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- Jan 30, 2020
It’s Not About You: White Authors, Systemic Racism, and American Dirt
Except…there’s one facet of this tale that my own writing career intersects with. So, I’m going to speak. For context I recommended these...
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- Jan 13, 2020
Invoke Purpose, Not Despair
Don’t give up. Don’t freak out. Freaking out helps no one. Following every single atrocity helps no one. Stuffing your heart, mind, and...
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- Dec 18, 2019
Alight and Alive
So many thoughts swirl in my head. But as for writing them down? I got nothing. Nothing coherent, that is. For once in my life, fiction...
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- Nov 17, 2019
This Precious Time
As humans: We make time for what is important. We take time for what we need. We mark time. We spend time. And sometimes, time spends and...
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- Oct 27, 2019
Change the Song
What do we do? We change the song. We listen to a different beat. New words. We shift perspective. When I write, I pick a song, put it on...
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- Sep 28, 2019
Body. Image.
Recently, poet Jay Hulme shared some anti-trans harassment couched as “concern” that he fielded after posting a sleepy morning photo of...
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- Aug 11, 2019
Art Matters
The café I’m writing in is playing Johnny Cash’s masterful cover of Trent Reznor’s classic song, “Hurt.” It reminds me of an Oxford Goth...
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- Jul 14, 2019
Fighting Fascists in a Gilded Age
We’re in it. This is our King Leopold time. This is our Adolf Hitler time. This is our General Custer time. This is our Henry Kissinger...
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- Jun 28, 2019
What is Pride?
What is pride: When Black women are killed on the street? When trans women die in concentration camps? When indigenous women and girls...
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- May 11, 2019
In Sickness & In Health
We can commit to ourselves, too. As a matter of fact, we must. Too many of us are dying. And not the dying that feels like the natural...
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- Apr 7, 2019
(F*ck the) Law of Attraction
You create your own reality. Change your mind and change your life. You attract what you put out. Half-truths, dangerous half-truths....
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- Mar 11, 2019
Legacies of Failure and Success
I don’t fully trust people who live a life with no regrets. How do they learn? I wonder. Have they never stumbled? Fallen? Have they...
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- Dec 4, 2018
In Memoriam: A Poem
for George H.W. Bush, written December, 2018 In Memoriam, Part I Even though I know The government is ––And always has been–– Filled with...
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