
Reflections on the Billboard Hot 100, 1993-1998 (Part 1 of 4)
Let's talk about the mid-90s


Dear Internet 9: FINALE
I'm not going to kill myself. I still need to figure out who I'm going to be.




Agape Love and the Great Blue
A blue heron, a Mary Oliver poem, and the salvific grace of the Creator


Walk in the Park
As an aged 22-year-old visits an old friend, everything has changed but the park.


Naming the Dragon
When was the last time you were able to pull a lawn chair out on the grass at night and watch for shooting stars, or hunt the fae in your imaginations?


The Most Dashing Man in the World Has Been Framed: A M/U Film Chat
The M/U Film Soiree gathers on Saul Bass' birthday to watch North by Northwest

A Game at Sundown
Thanks to my nursing home roommate, I felt young again - and death disappeared.

Dear Internet 2: The "Depressed Millennial" is the New Hippie
He couldn't accept that I preferred a frog to a dog


Dear Internet 1: Confession Time
Introducing a new psychologically gripping fiction serial

Guerilla Golfing, Dr. Ron, and the Killer Mimosa
He's a cannabis bootlegger, a cannabis scientist...and plays the wildest golf game you've ever imagined

To Burn Clean
With an outlaw father on the brink of death, Johnny ponders the way the worm has turned - and stretches

Like Raisins on the Vine
As the pastoral scene unfolds, one world weaves into the other, and there's magic in the pomegranate seeds