I wrote these three poems during the pandemic, not for the pandemic. I wrote them for myself and for you. May you all be well. John // Fo...

We are living in unprecedented times. The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our daily lives, fragmented our social patterns, and turned many...

Inspired by John McPhee’s piece “Tabula Rasa” in The New Yorker, this is an ongoing series of free-writings that need not have much inten...

The line to see the man was around the block, looping around the intersection of Manchester and Price, and conveniently backing up to the...

5:00am EST wake up, drive to DCA, fly to Atlanta 11:45am EST begin flight to Seoul 12:00pm EST I'm glad we spoke before I flew If you'd b...

"If I had a camera, I said, I’d take a picture of you every day. That way I’d remember how you looked every single day of your life. I lo...

A couple of my friends have said they're proud of me for 'actually doing it.' This startled me, not because I was miffed that my friends ...