Come As You Are

I'm not here to sell you anything bought or processed, you know, as a career. I’ve found that writing honestly about my life has connected me with others in a most meaningful way. I would love to learn from you as well, let’s get real together ❤️

Essays about my dysfunctional family and my often fabulous gay father, coming out as a writer, depression, working a 12-Step program for recovery from disordered thinking and eating. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's sad. It's all me.

Once upon a time I worked in magazines. Now I’m writing about life as an Expat in Amsterdam.

Chips and salsa, essays, memoir, food analogies

Nominated for Best American Essay and Pushcart Prize. Proudly niche since 2006. Faith, hope, grit and wit, in posts of 2 minutes or less. Subscribe FREE as long as Substack allows. No cost. No risk. No obligation.

Thoughts, free-writes, a poem or two, an essay here and there, upcoming book chapter previews. Live, from my little adobe at the bottom of the canyon.

A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

Essays on kindness, pop culture, and occasionally poop. Cancer survivor x2. Father of awesome daughters. Four-time Best American Essayist.

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.