Things have been brewing quickly in the mad scientist’s lab of my brain, and the results are almost ready to escape into the world.
How soon?
Weeks, not months.
Here’s what’s going on.
Trying to Be Good
Trying to Be Good is a small, quiet book.
It isn’t a memoir in the traditional sense, and it isn’t trying to explain anything neatly.
It’s a book about moral memory, childhood, and the moments that don’t resolve themselves just because time passes. Less narrative arc, more presence. Less explanation, more noticing what stays.
It’s the kind of book I couldn’t have written earlier — not because I didn’t have the material, but because I hadn’t yet learned how to stop explaining myself.
The Reader’s Version
Alongside the standard edition, I’ll be releasing a Reader’s Version of Trying to Be Good.
This version will be:
- simple
- inexpensive
- minimally designed
- intentionally easy to pass along
The idea is to lower friction and let the book move if it wants to move.
Read it. Keep it. Hand it to someone. Or don’t.
There’s no obligation baked into it — just trust.
For those who prefer a more finished presentation, a regular edition will also be available. Same book. Different posture.
A quick note on the blog
If you’ve noticed fewer updates here lately, that’s why.
I’ve been deep in the work.
That said, I want to say thank you to the people who stop by regularly — especially knowing how inconsistent my posting can be. I see the steady traffic coming from Facebook, and even the small weekly trickle of views means more than you might think.
Quiet attention still counts.
It keeps me going.
More soon.
Much more.
— Frank
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