Published in fathommag.com - September 2021

“So Idaho gal leaves for the weekend, gone away with high-schoolers for church camp, which should earn her the Congressional Medal of Honor or a bottle of wine, or both, and in her good-doing I am left with Minion 1 and Minion 2, whose little, blond, caffeinated heads bob and weave around the house, their still developing selves spinning out in raw energy and movement and noise and questions.”

Published in Ekstasis Magazine - Summer 2021

“In the corner of my office is a white cardboard box filled with my grandfather’s academic papers. Samuel Richey Kamm taught political science at Wheaton College from 1940 to 1973. Soon after retirement he died of a heart attack on his way to guest teach at Westmont College, where I began my undergraduate studies in 1984.”

Published at fathommag.com - April 2021

I faintly remembered how easily I used to move in the world. It occurred to me, like a jolt, that anxiety is an insistent god. If I continued to bow to anxiety and sought out the comfortable, the mundane, the safe, then it would insinuate itself into every decision and every dream. My world would shrink, and my life would become a sad, pallid thing.