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Gently Weeps
Is it still there? Flag Day and Those Who Serve
I deny that I died for anything.
One Thing My Daughter Has That I Did Not
A Veteran's Four-Word Rule
Old Boys Rugby: "Scum of the Earth" Sings Second
ETsundoku and Goodreaads giveaway
Stick Season, 10000 Hours, and a Book on the Way
Punch, Roll, and Breathe: The Art of Audiobook Narration
The Man in Row 9
On Fathers and Storytelling: The Merchant of Saigon
Poetry for Emergencies: Love Fiercely
When Life is Like a Country Music Song
In the Bardo: Referring to the Dead in the Present Tense
Saigon, 50 Years Ago Today
In Search of the Blue flower
You're Not Wasting Your Time . . .
Sirsasana, King of Asanas
The Monk, the Nun, and the Poet
Nice or Not-so-nice? A $14,000 Dress
Ichigo Ichie: One Time, One Meeting
Water, Water: A Year-end Muse
Giving Thanks for Civility
Giving Thanks for Civility
A Sutra on Solitude
An Angel Number, 1111
Why an 84-Year-Old Goes to the Polls
An Omen and 3 Ravens
They'll Grow In Their Own Sunlight
Living on Hot Dogs
Dinner with Obama
Queen Amahn, the Third Circle of Hell
St. Louis and the Sublime
My Car and a Helicopter Got in a Fight
"These United Colonies . . . are Free and Independent States"
A Stoic on Stupidity and Plumbing
The Curse of the Bootlegger's Daughter
Northeast by Northwest: How Travel Changes Me*
"Well-Intentioned Fools"
Memorial Day Speech: We're Here Today Because They Lived
"We Lived, Felt Dawn, Saw Sunset Glow"
That Teacher, You Know the One
Midwest Mandala
Semper Fidelis
On Poetry, Spring, and Transition
Small Delight: The Unexpected and the Good
Dirtman and Dillard on Signs of the Apocalypse
Deez Nutz*
Who Does Not Prefer Civility to Barbarism?*
How to Improve Your Writing - Part 2: from Confucius to Lincoln
What Men Live By*
How to Improve Your Writing - Part 1
Superior to the Saint, the Scientist, the Philosopher, and the Poet?
An Alabama Road
Town Mouse and Country Mouse
Living Outside the Page
Books for the Casual and Serious Reader
Involved and Implicated: Narcissism and Poetry
Giving Thanks for a Man I Never Met
EOn Flesh-Eating Beetles and the Sins of the Mother
In the Company of Heroes
Spooky Hour with Spirits of the Dead
What's in your trunk?
Why Do I Run?
Fall is Like a Country Music Song
Trailway to Heaven
Through the Keyhole
The Ever Restless Soul
Confusables, Contronyms, and Jane's Potato Salad
The Music in Stories: Pavan on Borges
Beyond Grade-School Sentences: Adding Depth and Texture to Writing
On Theft, Death, and the Moon
The Master Sentence and the Centenarian
Three Days in Sun Valley and the Best Writing Teacher
Classic Prose: Thought and Presentation
Biblical Times - Fire and Flood
July 4th Declarations: a Nation, a Panda, a Soldier
EGoggins, Pushup Yoga, and the Art of the Paragraph
Where's Your Cathedral?
Degree of Separation
What makes a speech great?
"It is precisely because life is so precious to me that I am prepared to die."
The Cure for Resentment and Cynicsim
Weasel Words
What makes a single person's death feel large?*
Wild Horses Dragged Me Away
Go Slow to Go Fast
Sleep on It: Darkness Helps Us See the Light
A Day With the Night Stalkers
Hey, why aren't dogs alcoholics?
The Edgeless Sound and the Night Owl
Belief is a Powerful Elixir
Presciption for Life and Rumi's Cow
Two Things Everybody's Got to Do
Good Luck and Smooth Sailing in the Year of the Cat
How to Capture a Life in 400 Words
Punch In, Punch Out: the Profession and the Side Hustle
Pithy and Practical - Time in Memoir
Giving Thanks for Dissent and Cookies
On Perfect Love and Longing