Essays

Meditations on modern life

Humor essays about the small disasters and quiet absurdities of everyday existence: home improvement projects that reveal existential truths, pets who understand peace better than their owners, and the gap between who we think we are and who we actually become when nobody's watching.

As God As My Witness: A Meditation on Turkeys, Birthdays, and Bad Assumptions

November 26, 2025 • 7 min read

Thanksgiving occupies a peculiar space in the American holiday calendar—it’s the one day we’re contractually obligated to admit we’re grateful for things while simultaneously stress-eating...

Birds of a Feather: A Meditation on Addiction

November 10, 2025 • 9 min read

It started innocently enough, the way all addictions do. A family hike during lockdown Spring 2020, when "going outside" felt like a radical act of rebellion...

Watching Paint Dry: A Meditation on Acceptance

November 3, 2025 • 6 min read

I absolutely despise painting. Not in the way one dislikes brussels sprouts or airport security lines—this is a deeper, more primal aversion. It's the kind of...

The Influencer in the Wild: A Meditation on Performance

October 25, 2025 • 5 min read

My wife and I were having lunch in an outdoor courtyard, fresh from the trenches of bathroom vanity shopping—because nothing says ”romance” quite like debating...

The Kitchen of Theseus: A Meditation on Competence

October 19, 2025 • 5 min read

Early morning and I'm standing in what used to be my kitchen, holding a prybar like it's evidence in a trial where I'm both defendant...

The Upside-Down Dog: A Meditation on Surrender

October 16, 2025 • 2 min read

This morning I found Ellie, my Irish Setter, asleep on her back—legs splayed at geometrically improbable angles, one ear flopped inside-out, making soft honking noises...