Nonfiction
Listening For the Quiet
Emotional pain, the quest for peace and what the struggle is telling us.
Discover The Secret To Unbreakable Relationships!
What comes to your mind when you think of unbreakable relationships? An elderly couple sitting together on the porch, having weathered all the storms of life? A partner that you can turn to no matter what is happening in your life? Or maybe an unbreakable relationship sounds impossible, like something out of a fairy tale. […]
Postcards Against Purity
POSTCARD #1. Birmingham Zoo You ask the kids to name their spirit animal. I listen and wait my turn. Butterflies, bats, beavers, and jaguars. Nannies pushing strollers behind elegant mothers. I want to say I’d be the tigress, claws pitched open, teeth angling to slice– or the giraffe one head above the tallest oak tree, bird’s view, soil […]
Accepting Your Child is All Grown Up
It’s never easy to accept that your kid is all grown up. I remember the shock I felt when my eldest daughter first told me that she had a boyfriend. Granted, she was six, and it was a boy she held hands with in preschool, but it was the first moment when I actually thought: […]
Two Prefects, Touching
His name is Michael. We go to the same New England boarding school, and we are co-Prefects in our dorm of twenty-eight other teenage boys. He’s straight, I’m gay, and we’re just friends, nothing more. There’s no longing from me, or discomfort from him—we’re just two guys who serve as Prefects in a dorm together […]
Crave
A brief poem about emotional hunger, the risks of letting it get out of control and the need to evolve.