the inner gathering

The final months of 2022 were so disorienting, it took me a few weeks to get my bearings....

snow angels purpose

One morning, I wake up doubting my calling to be a writer in a thousand different ways. It’s...

missing tile gratitude

I once heard of a psychological phenomenon called “missing tile syndrome.” The idea is that if you walk...

joy

“We think this would work better as fiction.” I’d submitted my proposal for the second non-fiction work of...

grace

It’s a Saturday in September, and we’re moving my oldest son Aidan into Chicago on his 19th birthday....

where to find beauty these days

I’m riding on the bike path in my hometown. As usual, I’m caught up in my thoughts about...

get what you want

The alarm sounds at 4am, so we can begin the two-day road trip to our annual beach vacation...

dreams

Sometime shortly after the Y2K bug did not end civilization, my girlfriend handed me a novel called A...

The Unhiding of Elijah Campbell

This excerpt taken from The Unhiding of Elijah Campbell: A Novel by Kelly Flanagan. Copyright (c) 2022 by...

loveable

It’s May and endings are everywhere. Aidan is graduating from high school. Quinn is graduating from eighth grade,...

Will Smith

You probably think you’ve heard everything there is to say about Will Smith. You haven’t. Nor have you...

breakthrough

The house is quiet for the first time in eighteen months. Minutes earlier, all three of my kids...

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