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The Names I Didn’t Know
I started with a simple question: how did the Bible on my desk get here? The material wasn’t too hard. It was full of people I had never heard of, mentioned as if I already knew them. Chasing those names down turned out to be the whole method.
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The King in Yellow — The Wall and the Fork (4 of 4)
The wall I’ve spent fifty-four years building has a perfect record, and that’s the problem. The math the line uses to keep me frozen in front of it, and the question I still can’t answer.
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The King in Yellow — The Borrowed Ruler (3 of 4)
The fraud voice runs the same play every time. It redefines the word until my method falls outside the definition, then convicts me for being outside a line it just drew. The ruler I inherited without knowing, and why the church I walk into rarely has a seat for what I’m built to do. Section 3 of 4 in The King in Yellow series.
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The King in Yellow — The Eye and the Line (2 of 4)
The eye that sees the whole web is also the eye that flattens. Web-cognition, the 2 AM line, and why Rust doesn’t fade into Carcosa when he’s tired. He fades in when he stops. Section 2 of 4 in The King in Yellow series.
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How Fight Club Helped My Fear of Flying
A bumpy flight to Phoenix triggered five years of crippling fear of flying. Then Tyler Durden’s brutal honesty and a couple meditation apps helped me break the cycle. Sometimes the best medicine comes from the last place you’d expect.
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The Business of Busyness
Thoreau works the same ground as the Stoics: being busy is not the same as having a purpose. Three rules from a paper-mill manager in southeastern Ohio that still run how I judge my own busy thirty years later.