No one is more surprised than I to report I am meeting the milestones I set for myself in this last big edit of my novel, WHERE YOU WILL...

A New Direction for My Novel After three years of drafting, editing, and revising, I am embarked on the final preparations of my novel,...

"Hell is the impossibility of reason." Oh, heady days! Late imperial, early feudal, rancor in the air like poison smoke. We breathe in...

I am roiled tonight with questions. What inexorable force impresses choice beyond all good and evil? Why does the mantle of...

One day in a time and place not far from here, a man named Oben went to market to buy bread for his family. He left his wife and nearly...

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced,” - James Baldwin

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do." - Hellen Keller

The first, best thing about John Soares' CAMP FOR FREE is that it makes you want to get out there and enjoy the sheer beauty of Wild...

We are Not the Enemy Here are three phrases I hate as some of the most damnable and destructive lies in our cultural lexicon: “All’s fair...

My recent post on Medium - from my poetry collection THE END OF AN ORDINARY LIFE The Kid Meets the Unknown Professional

I've never had much success with blogging. What do instead, is post my fiction, poetry and essays on Medium, a great publishing platform...

Fire chased us from our Paradise home. Now snow traps us in our Eugene refuge. A foot of fresh powder fell on our South Eugene...

The Best day of His Life When Steel Stapler was first brought to The Desk, shiny and new from the stationary store, he was sure he’d...

"Fine Scottish day" I say, leading Coco by the leash down the muddy lane to the dog park. "Aye, 'tis that" Pat replies. January in...

The morning of November 8, 2018, about 8:30, my wife and I were beginning our day as we had for years: Workouts, a light breakfast, a...