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Happy Music Makes Me Angry
...and angry music makes me happy
Jul 15, 2023
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What I'm Reading — Jan 2023
Scott Britton, Brad Listi, Michael Mohr, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Pressfield, James Lee Burke, Charlie Engle, Amy Blackstone, Andy Johns, Liv…
Jan 29, 2023
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My entire book-length memoir, serialized right here on Substack
From “Who am I, and how could I not know?” to finding the voice of self, sanity and soul.
Dec 1, 2022
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I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
Jun 10, 2023
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E15 / Behind the Mask with Ashanti Branch
Discipline, adulthood, intimacy and the range of deep connection, giving room to explore someone’s thinking, the power of positive confrontation, and…
Feb 6, 2023
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"Writing yourself into existence" with Lyle McKeany
Writing yourself into existence, how writing is like music, whether men can say “sex”, writing memoir as a man, what we're afraid to write about…
May 20, 2023
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Lyle McKeany
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Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
Sep 18, 2022
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E09 / The Adventure of Young Fatherhood with Noah Rainey
A commitment to joy and fun, the power of invitation, embodied virtues, exploring the territory of fear, unexpected fatherhood, rites of passage, the…
Oct 31, 2022
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Star Drive
Still mostly asleep in the liminal dawn, I first hear the wind as it pours over the ridge, shaking the trees and wrapping the house in white, blowing…
Jul 21, 2022
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What I've Learned from Ten Brothers and Teachers
Adam Gayner, Roddy McDowell, Lucas Krump, T Callahan, Bob Conlin, Anthony David Adams, Robert Ellis, Kenyon Phillips, Noah Rainey, and James Brown on…
Nov 17, 2022
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Love as a place
a clutch of roses dropped in a Capp Street crosswalk
Nov 8, 2023
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Chapter 8 — A guerrilla mission to scale San Francisco's most iconic landmark
Chapter 08 from my memoir in progress. A guerrilla climb of the north tower of the Golden Gate bridge in 1988, at night.
Mar 17, 2023
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