Forest
Letters
- Simple Tools, Even for Complex Projects, May 13, 2024
- Time and Tide, Wait for No Man, April 22, 2024
- Speak Softly &c [Feb. 24, 2023], Restraint is Half the Battle, April 15, 2024
- Whoops, A Book, a Poem, a Concert, April 8, 2024
- On Being an Ass, Chesterton's “The Donkey” and April Fools' Day, April 1, 2024
- Home Stories, A Doll Named Jesus, March 25, 2024
- Reading and Weeding, Husbandry at Its Best &c, March 18, 2024
- Practice Makes Perfect, Ignore Talent, Develop Craft, March 8, 2024
- Humanities Die in Silence , Learn to Labor and to Wait, Feb. 23, 2024
- Bless Beyond Measure, A Tree, a Son, a Book, Feb. 9, 2024
- Happy New Year! , Auld Lang Syne, Dec. 29, 2023
- Merry Christmas!, Guadete, gaudete, Christus est natus., Dec. 15, 2023
- Giving Thanks, For real this time, Dec. 1, 2023
- The Indian Cobra Problem, On what can be taught and learnt by the law and when you’re feeling down. Nov. 17, 2023
- More.
Essays
- Why TikTok Should Be Banned or Sold, Dec. 11, 2023, expanded and republished in the Winter 2023 edition of The Vital Center
About
Howdy y'all. I'm living out my eucatastrophe in the Great Plains, thanks in no small part to my wife & two young daughters.
Being surrounded by about half of the rest of my 80-something-person family doesn't hurt either.
The only thing is: I don't say either 'howdy' or 'y'll'. In fact, I've been told I sound like a particularly snooty English don.
You know, the one whom, if you come across him by chance on a dark night in one of those thousand Oxford alleys, you'd throw eggs at.
I write about writing, culture, and the arts for my Newsletter, Hortus Scriptorius. I'm currently working on a book
about the Figure of Speech, the progress on and snippets of which I publish in my letters. I also sometimes write short stories and
more public-facing commentary. These you can find in the Stories and Essays sections.