When Mike Soto and I talk, we rarely talk about poetry. Especially during basketball season. But I always learn a lesson or two from Mike when the conversation does turn…
Image Credit: Richie Bautista Ramon towers above me. DANGER. PELIGRO: Do Not Stand On Or Above This Rung, the stickers below his feet read. He waves for the leaf blower…
What is a question that has stayed with you through time, clung to you like an inhalation? What is a question that pulls you out from syncope? For me, it…
Image Credit: Dev Murphy My mother called me last week to tell me she had dreamed of her sister Christy’s trip to the hospital before it happened. Minor illness.…
DAVID MAHLER is an Australian filmmaker and visual artist based in Melbourne. Selected by the City of Melbourne to partake in the 2017 Signal Screen Arts Commission, he has…
There are lots of self-help and wellness blogs out there. Oftentimes, bloggers use their digital accomplishments—i.e. lots of social media followers and/or a freewheelin’ digital nomad lifestyle—as a platform to…
Appropriately enough, I finished reading Paul Cohen’s The Glamshack in the middle of a heatwave that temporarily turned Eugene, Oregon into Memphis, Tennessee. My wife and I had traveled to…
Growing up with a mother who regularly taught Sunday School meant that I didn’t get to skip church much as a child. Faith was a word that circled around me…