Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry
Recent Writing
- FOR EDITINGNote: This essay was read for Lit Youngstown’s First Wednesday Readers Series on November 4, 2026. Thank you to the incredible Westside Bowl for hosting. This is an essay about an essay that began… Read more: FOR EDITING
- Mixed Tape, Side 2: What Mom and Dad Won’t Tell You, Prince, the Pogues, and Sinéad O’Connor WillThere were three things that most occupied my thoughts after I put down my LEGOs and became a teenager: music, books, and girls (yes, in that order). In my mind, and at an early… Read more: Mixed Tape, Side 2: What Mom and Dad Won’t Tell You, Prince, the Pogues, and Sinéad O’Connor Will
- A little out of place, a little out of tune: on the passing of todd sniderAny kind of heaven every body doesn’t get in/Won’t seem like a heaven to me.—Todd Snider in “If Tomorrow Never Comes” The leaves are mostly off the trees now and the winter is approaching… Read more: A little out of place, a little out of tune: on the passing of todd snider