What Do You Seek?
It’s a matter of posture, a mode of standing in the world, towards the world, towards your self: a question of what you seek, I suppose, even if what you seek is the end of seeking.
Thinking About Thinking And Not Thinking
I think about things. It’s my first instinct when I approach anything.
Fear Of Death And The Silence Of Life
Cuticles, cheese, and Chihuahuas: these are the things that have made my spawn and me shake with mortal fear, keeping us up nights sweating.
Magnanimity, Or Letting Other People Be
To be magnanimous is to honor the other’s state of being.
Habit, Or The Ups And Downs Of Doing The Same Thing Every Day
Habit, in fact, comes from the Latin word meaning dress and then, in the Middle Ages, came to mean the dress worn by the religious.
Booze And Me, Me And Booze: An Existential Journey
For a full decade, tequila lifted my spirits, proffered the sunshine to my tortured, weighty soul.
How To Write Criticism
All things — all texts — are to be read. And, in fact, all things are always already read.
Writing Critically About Things
A good reading is life affirming. I’ll one up that: a critical reading creates life! It takes what you think you’re seeing, what you think is done, and shows you whole other worlds.
Looking For Life In Dating Profile Pictures
Metonymy is not synecdoche.
Why Writing An Online Dating Profile Is So Hard
We are always entering a world in progress.