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"Kinda This, Kinda That" in the Mid-pack
What to Say When People Thank You for Your Military Service
Everyone Should Write
What can music teach us about writing?
Reading for Foodies: Zauner's memoir, Crying in H-Mart
Bringing Writers and Readers Together
"Old Age is Not for the Young"*
What Book Would You Take to a Desert Island?
Charlie Munger and the Art of Swearing
The Sentence Fragment
No Ordinary Hike: Marchback for the USMA Class of 2026
On Fighting and Writing: Blackwing and Bruce Lee
Spandrel: Byproduct of Evolution and Thing of Beauty
Thoughts on Music and the Brain
Essays that changed me: Alison Lurie and 'When most boys... joined the armed services.'
Simba the Designer Dog? A Perfect Combination of 5 Breeds
Notes on a Year of Love
Why I write
"The Q-tips Are for Your M4" and the Art of the Paragraph
"Keep the Faith For Which They Died" this Memorial Day
The Last Recital
"Django with One Finger," a Living Music Icon
On Puppies and Babies: a "Communion with Terror"
Books for Mothers and Daughters
What Makes a Speech Great? an Admiral Tells 3 Stories
Exercises in Style: a Writing Tribute
1000 Push-ups? Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Bedside Counselor on Parenting in Anger, in Two Translations
What I Learned Walking With a Friend
A Poet Warrior Learns Kindness
A Fool is Full and a Pool Not a Pull
Three Sunsets in One Day
Each sentence reflects 3 choices
Spicy Rooster and a Coffee Outpost
Firecracker and a Humble Queen
Essays that changed me: Rachel Cusk and “Making Home”
Writing on the Road and the Creative Process
Poetry for Emergencies: Ukraine, Howard Nemerov, and the War Dead
Sex Over 70 Years and the Synecdoche
EAdult Child and a Zen Koan
Love in a Sad Cafe
A Valentine Canine and the Circle of Life
If You Want to Write, Your Writing Has to Have Rhythm
The Meaning in Music
Coaching Habit by Stanier: Short Take on How to Avoid Crappy Advice for the Wrong Problem
Books as Trophies, the Bibliophile vs the Bibliophagist
Thay's Miracle: Short Take on a Long Life (Thich Nhat Hanh)
The Sexy Semicolon, Really?
Poetry for Emergencies: Lain S. Thomas at Daybreak
New Year: Goals Versus Habits
Graveside Gratitude, Giving Thanks in November
Summer's End
Alaska Mountains May Spoil You For All the Rest
Father and His Letters
Memorial Day, Reflection and Celebration
April Dreams
Two Truths and a Lie, a Fools Game
I Met a Man at the Top of Chimney Rock
Family Travel in a Pandemic - By Air and By Land
Giving Thanks in 2020 & Simon's List
Spirits of the Fall: Episode (4) Toddler Vision
Spirits of the Fall: Episode (3) Visits From Beyond
Spirits of the Fall: Episode (2) Where the Driveway Ends
Spirits of the Fall: Episode (1) In the House
Learning to Run
Would You Kneel? A College Coach & a Veteran on the National Anthem
Birthday and Death Day, Catholics and Customs
The Vulgar Parrot
On Becoming Sheepdogs, A Modern Fable
Memorial Day Reflection - Two Poems and a Tribute
Why Nursing Homes Suck
Are We Killing the Fat Man? The Corona Trolley Dilemma
For The Class of 2020 During the Pandemic
The Three Gifts - What have you learned in 50 years?
On Presidents, Politics and War, and Poetry
Raise Your Glass! A Toast by W.B. Yeats
The Light in Your Day - a New Take on Winter
Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag - A Russian Novel About Your Life
A Book for Everyone, Even Nonreaders and Grinches
Giving Thanks in 2019 - Looking Back on Life's Big Questions
TikTok Connect the Dots - the United States and China
A View From Above: Army Colonel Ken Mintz on Afghanistan
You've tidied up your closet and your house. Why not tidy up your writing?
Murphy's Law and the Army Ten-Miler
On Poetry and Mondegreens and Teenagers
The Making of a Myth or Legend - Stephen Siller
For the Love of Milk
A Case for the Personal Letter
Suicide and Suffering - Army Veteran and Secular Buddhist on the Four Noble Truths
Whales, Migration, and Back-to-School
In These Walls
Kili at 50 - Episode 3 -Summit Assault and Days 5 & 6
Kili at 50 - Episode 2 - Jambo! Dreadlocks & Day 4
Kili at 50 - Episode 1 - Hiking Kilimanjaro on the Machame Route in Six Days