Category: Blog

When I was looking for an apartment here in Wichita, it was important to me that I find a home with good natural light. Lightbulbs, today, don’t use too much energy. If you have a modern bulb, you could conceivably…

If I was smart, I would have more advertisers on my podcast. I’ve been using the same two for a while, and that has no doubt diminished my money-making opportunities. Further, it’d be a good idea to start having guests…

I’ve been living in Kansas for a little over seven months, and I’ll be here for another four before leaving in pursuit of my next adventure. I decided to move here because the very idea of doing so frightened me. Not in…

We live in contentious times, and discourse will only become more impassioned in the coming years. Political tremors are upending the status quo around the world, precipitating intense debate about the principles our politicians espouse. This conflict is probably good for us, though that may not…

I’ve always believed in celebrating the accidental mispronunciation of a word rather than mocking or deriding it. Such accidents are usually an indication of the mispronouncer having learned a new word in a book, and after determining its meaning, having…

Time has passed differently for me since I arrived in Kansas. That’s not a statement about Kansas, but rather about how the way we live warps how we perceive the passing of time. For seven years, I’ve organized my memories…

It’s hard to know what to think sometimes. Perhaps the news seems unreliable, and you’re not sure what sources to trust. Perhaps your own ideologies are beginning to fray at the edges, and you’re not certain which of your own…

In many different dimensions of my life right now, I feel that I’m stepping back from a painting I’ve long studied, having spent years trying to understand the composition, the colors, the brush strokes, and the movement, only to accidentally catch…

I’m writing a new nonfiction book, entitled Becoming Who We Need to Be, and though I don’t typically have any trouble spinning up into writing mode, I’ve found that being here in Wichita has altered that propensity a bit. It’s…

I’ve said before that going through the editing process for a book is like being beaten across the face with a hammer, only to realize afterward that you look better with a black eye and fewer teeth. I still feel…