Blog Index (2025)
1/23/2025
1/25/2025
1/27/2025
2/19/2025
Rambling to the Robot: How I Use (and Don’t Use) AI in My Writing Process
2/21/2025
The Icons of My Youth: Bruce Lee and Eddie Van Halen
2/23/2025
Why Am I Like This? The Stories That Shaped Gen X (And Me)
2/27/2025
What Is Missing and Why It’s Needed
3/4/2025
3/9/2025
Drawing with Words: How John Byrne’s Backgrounds Influence My Writing
3/13/2025
An Appreciation of The Debut (2000): A Coming-of-Age Film That Deserves More Recognition
3/18/2025
Authenticity vs. Toxicity: Depicting the Past Without Judgment (But Inviting It Anyway)
3/23/2025
What Comes First? Rethinking the Release, the Plan, and the Relationship Between Two Books
3/28/2025
Before the Epilogue: What 1996 Felt Like
4/3/2025
4/6/2025
Left Behind at the Starting Line
4/15/2025
4/18/2025
If A.I. Can Tell Your Story, It Was Never Yours to Begin With
4/21/2025
The Mountain of Garbage Behind Every Spark of AI Creativity
4/28/2025
Why I Keep Talking About AI: A Reflection on Change, Memory, and Creation
4/29/2025
Learning in the Age of AI: Between Knowledge and Tools
4/30/2025
5/1/2025
Art After the Fall: Why Creation Still Matters When Commerce Doesn’t
5/2/2025
Give It Away Now: On AI, Creativity, and Staying Human
5/11/2025
Three Sides to Every Story: Disappointment, Perspective, and the Beauty of What Is
5/19/2025
5/20/2025
What Might Female Readers Get Out of The Wake of Expectations?
5/27/2025
Navigating the ’80s (and Everything After)
5/29/2025
Writing Without Apology: Flawed Humanity and the Long Arc of Honesty
6/2/2025
The Joke That Hid the Hurt: On Calvin McShane, Humor, and the Armor That Works Too Well
6/3/2025
A Love Letter, an Autopsy, and Maybe Even Our On the Road?
6/14/2025
Simulated Podcast, Real Conversation: Behind the Logan Interview
6/16/2025
I Didn’t Start a Podcast. I Built a Mirror.
6/17/2025
Creation as Dialogue: What Writing Taught Me About God
6/18/2025
6/20/2025
Catwalk Bed Hair and Cultivated Roots
6/23/2025
The Conversation Continues: Why I Wrote a Companion
6/30/2025
No, I Didn’t Feed My Book to ChatGPT
7/3/2025
A Tragic Symmetry: Coming of Age and Coming to Terms
7/7/2025
The Lone Wolf Empath (and His Foil): Craving Understanding vs. Craving Freedom
7/10/2025
The Lone Wolf, Part Two: Cultural Roots — and the Fictional Alchemy of Calvin & Jake
7/14/2025
The Superman Dilemma: Aspiration, Impotence, and Emotional Triage
7/17/2025
Real Talk with Logan Part 2: The Return of Javier De Lucia
7/21/2025
Everything Counts: On Authorial Intent, Discovery, and the Life Hidden in the Work
7/29/2025
The Filthy Profound: Finding Meaning in the Gutter
7/31/2025
Unspoken Hierarchies of Attraction: Inside Wake’s Subtle Social Math
8/20/2025
From Morpheus to McShane: On the Power of Story and the Tragedy of Expectation
8/25/2025
9/7/2025
The Echo Between Beginnings and Endings
9/10/2025
The Unique Grief of Losing a Sibling with Special Needs: Coping with Love, Loss, and Guilt
9/15/2025
On Being Defined by the Company You Keep
9/21/2025
Ben the Iron Safe, Calvin the Open Book: What Their Friendship Says About Men and Grief
9/28/2025
10/2/2025
A Pleasant Fiction and Manchester by the Sea: Grief in the Mundane
10/5/2025
The Five Stages of Grief in A Pleasant Fiction
10/11/2025
10/14/2025
When You’re Young, You Feel Like the Story Is Your Own
10/20/2025
10/27/2025
A Pleasant Fiction as an Existential Reply to A Grief Observed
10/28/2025
From Faith to Framework: The Evolution of Grief Literature from Lewis to De Lucia
10/30/2025
Calvin McShane and the Collapse of Theodicy
11/1/2025
The Door Slams Shut — Chapter 1 of A Grief Observed and the First Silence of A Pleasant Fiction
11/2/2025
11/4/2025
Bargaining, Rationalization, and Consolation — Chapters 3 and 4 of A Grief Observed
11/6/2025
Final Reflection: From Distortion to Clarity
11/11/2025
Is It Wrong to Want Something That’s Bad for You, or That You Can’t Have?
11/18/2025
11/28/2025
Thanks, Kevin, PART II: Different Counters, Different Escapes
12/9/2025
Thanks, Kevin, PART III — What Randall and Calvin Both Realize at the End
12/22/2025
Boyhood, By Accident: How Time Became the Co-Author of the Calvin Cycle