Monday, September 14, 2026 Happy Monday, my friends! I was in eighth grade at St. Benedict’s School in Cambridge, OH. I can’t remember when we learned that something tragic had happened, but I remember the moment when our principal, Sr. Miriam, came into the room and whispered something into Mrs. Wilson’s ear. She quickly stopped her lesson and wheeled out the classroom TV so that we could watch the news which was just then making sense of a second plane hitting the World Trade Center in New...

Monday, September 7, 2026 Happy Monday, my friends! It’s no secret that America likes its cowboys. These mythical men who go off to lonely places where they interact only with a few other people, several working dogs, and whatever livestock are under their care. We romanticize their solitude, longing ourselves for those rare moments of silence in our noise-driven lives. Around them we’ve constructed ideals rooted less in reality than in our perception of how we too might achieve what they...

Monday, August 31, 2026 Happy Monday, my friends! After three weeks on vulnerability and discussions about how I’ve seen myself as a Queer man in relation to masculinity and masculine people, I want to pivot a bit to how media both helps and hurts people construct their ideas of gender. Many of us have heard for decades about the overt effects of media which crop, decrease, airbrush, enlarge, and embellish the features of models and public figures to achieve supposed ideals of “beauty.”...