I’ve always had this fantasy about taking a trip with nothing but the clothes on my back and some beef jerky wrapped in a handkerchief. I love the idea of that kind of freedom—no “professional outfits” for appearances, no hair products, no assortment of…

Lest Justin think I forget him…Music Friday! (Sometimes known as Music Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.)

The longer I am a published author—and the more I am aware that’s not very long at all, really, and that I’m just starting out—the more I am interested…

It was Friday night. I felt restless and alive, a formerly huddled mass yearning to be free. Having long pondered the folly of interacting with others out of a flimsy and incomplete construction of myself defined by “stuff I like” and “stuff I own”…

I realize it is not the 6th. But, I am having Epiphany one day early this year, and my epiphany is that I’m done with my break. I’m so glad I did it, and didn’t miss the o’sphere much at all. I mean, I…

My favorite non-traditional Christmas song: Steve Earle’s “Nothing But a Child.”