One of my favorite all-time movie scenes is the one in which real-life pilot Jim Lovell, played so movingly by Tom Hanks, describes feeling led to safety by a bioluminescent algae trail when his navigational instruments had short-circuited earlier in life: “You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home,” he said. Continue reading Navigation

Quarantining has involved a lot of outward stillness and inward pondering; and it has been difficult at times not to identify with a pinneped like these on dry ground. Continue reading Seals

I have heard several times in my life, and from various people, about the importance of borderless faith, but I am learning that there is so much more required to at least begin to make progress. Continue reading Suburbs

On one of my first nights back after temporarily returning to the Mid-Atlantic after graduate school I was stunned by the intensity of pounding winds, profoundly loud thunder and shocking lightning that constituted what I would later learn is termed a derecho. Continue reading Screaming

“Hey, could you sweeten this audio for me?” Continue reading What You Don’t Know

This past week, in making what felt like about the billionth pan of cornbread I have in recent months, I realized midway through mixing there was not nearly enough sugar around to fulfill the recipe’s instructions. All I had on hand was a small amount of honey. Continue reading Sweetened

I believe the who and the what of confrontational roles, while related, are not deterministically so. This is as position and identity are distinct propositions; and so long as some form of accountability is present, protective and predatory forces can be disentangled. Continue reading Shadows

Journalists are frequently told that, in order to make it professionally, you need to learn to jettison your most beloved ideas or, as the saying goes, kill your darlings. Continue reading Balance

When… When… WHEN! Continue reading Produce

“Law students are trying to do math and it hurts,” my friend groaned not long ago, evaluating papers. Continue reading Night