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  I am currently on an airplane headed to Little Rock, Arkansas. I don’t want to be in this airplane seat. Nor am I thrilled about landing in Little Rock and making the normally painless drive...

Family road trips, I have long learned, are microcosms of internal family dynamics. No matter what the particulars of the journey each trip tends to capture the roles each family member plays in...

  Welcome to the DDC, the Dead Dad’s Club, where membership got closed as soon as it was founded, capped at two, when it instantly flooded with unyielding grief, anger, sadness, and fear. No...

  Imagine my shock at the ripe age of fourteen, after being religiously indoctrinated that imbibing alcohol was a sure-fire way to get an express ticket to hell, when I received from my parents...

  Most if not all of us have been there before. Someone asks a probing question that throws us out of kilter, not because we don’t understand what they’re asking, but because it strikes us as...

 This is my first blog, one of many to come. I aim to be transparent, direct, and unvarnished. In The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer asks a simple but universal question: “Who are you?” I have...

 My upbringing, like that of so many others in my small Arkansas community, was shrouded in religious instruction. Church attendance wasn’t a one-time weekly check-the-box...