Journal

Daddy and me in 1972.

They looked at me with a collective, ghastly disbelief. I’d just written a paragraph on the whiteboard that took an

A super nice and encouraging note from my principal awaited me on Day 1.

At exactly 4:10 p.m. CST on Friday, I celebrated an anniversary: exactly one

One of the first headlines I came across this morning from the Associated Press read: A Wave of Democratic Primary Upsets Has One Thing in Common:

A rough and modest tribute to my dad and family produced for his funeral in 2011.

History has a way of repeating itself—often without us even

Speaking early on to a chapter of Celebrate Recovery

“My words to each of you, although completely inadequate, are simple and heartfelt: Go live a

“Be sober-minded; be watchful.” — 1 Peter 5:8

I say this with all the humility and gratitude a guy can muster: the great benefit of living through

“Always be a rookie at something.” — Richard Branson, The Virgin Way

I can define my life’s decades with clarity.

The 20s meant surviving an

This will surely turn some people off. If not, come along. Let it be so.

I’ve published thousands of stories and millions of words across platforms

“The way I see it, the difference in farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be

As a candidate early on, the sitting President of the United States coined the phrase “fake news”—a label weaponized against any account of events