The Writing

Essays on living
the unbound life.

Writing on identity, freedom, integrity, and the cost of living a life that is not yours. Published since 1997.

The most loving thing anyone has ever done to me was decline my explanation. The person you are editing is not being...

A man I know worked sixty hour weeks for nineteen years. He had been enforcing an agreement nobody else ever signed.

There was a weekend in the second year. That weekend was real. It also happened once.

A woman I worked with told me she came apart over a coffee cup. She was not unstable. She was current.

Ask a person how long they have known and watch what happens to their face. They do not calculate. The answer is...

There is a particular kind of hearing loss that men who worked in mills carry, and the strange thing about it is...

You are standing at the sink when the message arrives. Water still running. You read it once and something moves in your...

Essays on livingthe unbound life.