If you’re anything like me, you live with an engine of anxiety whirring away inside of you. Sometimes it purrs, sometimes it roars. Lately, my engine has been winding up again. …

The latest innovation of our fear-and-panic news cycle is to stop beating the dead horse of “overpopulation” and slowly replace it with the looming specter of “demographic crisis.” Personally, I think our media-overlords have jumped the gun. Faux-environmentalist pundits have been beating the drum of OVERPOPULATION for so long, I’m…

The medieval past is taught to us in a way that makes our ancestors appear almost alien. How could anyone live that way? While there is a massive gulf between the medieval world and ours, in this series I want to emphasize our commonalities in order to contextualize the very…

“Should” is a dangerous word. — My wife and I used to raise organic pastured poultry. We believed that humanely-raised, premium chicken should be accessible to everyone, so we kept our prices far below market value. The net result was thousands of dollars in losses before we woke up to the damage our “should” was inflicting. …

My wife and I spent about a month trapped in the Rapid City area of South Dakota, living out of our van. During most of our stay we slept five feet from the railroad tracks, parked in a mechanic’s lot between a halfway-house and a homeless Mission. …

This meditation can be read as secularly or religiously as you prefer. I am not formally educated in theology, or anything else for that matter. My opinions are more than likely heretical and lacking important context. Feel free to correct me in the comment section, I enjoy it. I am…

I vowed at the beginning of April that I would publish on Medium every single day for at least a month. I succeeded until day 27, and then I failed. I missed two days because of outside circumstances that I could have easily overcome. I’m upset about the two days…

At 11:30 last night, my brother’s cat, Henry, found a fishhook and got it stuck in his cheek. He found two fishhooks actually — the second was embedded in his paw. Thomas walked out onto the deck and found him running in circles with fishing line trailing behind him. All…

Time is one of our most vital resources, and it is completely non-renewable. The finite nature of time gets a lot of press, but I think attention is even more important. If time is like a river, then attention is the bucket that lets us draw from it. Time is easily frittered away. It passes faster than we can philosophize over it. Time cannot be controlled. …