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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...