The world has changed dramatically in the past two and a half years. It seems ridiculous to pretend otherwise. But I vowed to try and post various things, more regularly. Then as I was working on a few ideas for this week, the shootings in El Paso and Dayton occurred and I realized how impossible it is for me to post what I'd planned in the cold light of such tragedy. Anything I came up with would be so trivial it would feel obscene. There have been 255 mass shootings in the United States so far this year. The current occupant of the Oval Office never once mentions the idiocy of a citizenry that is allowed to walk the streets with assault rifles in their hands. His language during his rallies and the endless racism contained in his tweets speak through the cold hearts of red hats and manifestos of killers. He uses it freely. The Trump-ruled American government also demonstrated heartlessness by raiding several poultry plants in Mississippi and detained almost 700 law-...
I write to remember, to question, and to connect. Here you’ll find essays, stories, and fragments of life — all the ways I try to make sense of the world, one sentence at a time.