There was a time when I didn’t know how to touch the sky. I used to go for walks on the sidewalks around the neighborhood for hours at a...

Good news, everybody! 2020 is half over! This year has been a dumpster fire in countless ways, but at least it’s given us some genuinely...

There’s an inherent haze that comes with insomnia. Sometimes I jolt awake, fully aware that I shouldn’t be, and my head immediately...

Dull thuds still echo through the streets. Every now and then, a residual bottle rocket climbs up into the distant sky and pops a...

2020 has me feeling a little bit differently about the Fourth of July. In short, it's complicated. So I thought I'd try to articulate...

I grew up in the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. When I was a kid, my local history was basically American history. Thomas Jefferson,...

We’ve been doing a lot of hiking the last few months. (Well…some people call it hiking. I call it “walking with a view.”) It’s safe, it’s...