a book of nights

A Little Story About How Societies Collapse

Or, Why People Aren’t Just the Sum of Their Appetites

Or What I Do When Everything I Read Makes Me Angry

What Does it Mean to Be Good in a World Turning Bad?

But it Isn’t as Easy and Simple as You Think

Or, Why The Gift We Forget to Give Ourselves is Ourselves

Or, Why The Greatest Wisdom is Innocence

Why The Logic of the Heart is Greater Than the Logic of the Mind

Where the Strength to Go On Comes From

Don’t Fight It. Nourish It.

Or, a Tiny Letter to Everyone Who’s Graduating

We Love Ourselves Plenty. But it Hasn’t Made Us Better People. Why?

Fighting the Sun

Three Skills Each and Every One of Us Should Have

The Four Qualities of a Meaningful Life

When the Eye of the World is Closing, Our Job is to Open It

Why Your Weaknesses are the Soil in Which Your Strengths Grow

We All Feel Lost. Here’s How to Find Your Way Home

Or, How The Rules of Good Writing Made it Bland, Boring, and Forgettable

Closing a Circle of Grace