Writing-Related Announcements
Why I’m Starting a Blog (2013)
An Epigraph for My Short Stories, 2018
Work-Related Content, August 2023
Annual Essays
General Reflections
Mario Vargas Llosa on Literature (2013)
On Politics, Hannah Arendt Style (2013)
Seeing the World Through Dead Greek People (5-Part Series), 2013
On the Idea of Utopia (Start of a Semi-Series), 2014
On an Intellectual Life (2015)
On Staying Sane While Being Overworked (2015)
On Finishing a Masters Degree (2016)
Urban Planning for Families (2016)
Income and School Quality (2016)
A Case for Small Cities (2016)
If I Hadn’t Gotten My Northspan Job (2017)
On Community-Building in Rural America (2017)
On Patrick Deneen Assessing Liberalism (2018)
On Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation and Moving in Elite Circles, 2018
GK Chesterton and Love for Place, 2019
Living Through the Covid Pandemic, Parts One and Two
On Receiving the Covid Vaccine (2021)
On Varieties of Localism (2021)
On Nomadic Life, in Into the Wild and Nomadland (2021)
Queen Elizabeth and Myth (2022)
On Aspiring to Being More Than Fine (2023)
On My Years in Duluth Between College and Grad School (2023)
A Patient Cycle 