Tag: Memoir
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I Shouldn’t Be Here Or: On Faith and the Never-Ending Story
I have nearly died more times than I can count. That isn’t hyperbole. I’ve been in hospitals, in rapid decline, close enough to death that it stopped feeling abstract. It’s happened often enough that I can’t even give you an exact number anymore. The closest was a heart attack that killed 14% of my heart…
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Prayer, Mercy, and the Sound of Now
How U2 and President lead me to prayer. Music anchors my life. It always has. It fills the silence in a way nothing else can, a constant companion when everything else feels uncertain. There are times I step away from it—intentionally, even—but those breaks never last. I always come back. I need it. Part of…
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I Worry About the World My Son Is Growing Into
I worry. A lot. I worry about myself. I worry about my son. I worry about the world we’re handing him and whether we’re even being honest about what that world looks like. Because if I’m being real, when I look at the people in charge right now, it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. It makes…
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The Lying Years Is Out — and Where the Work Is Headed Now
I quietly released The Lying Years this week. There wasn’t a launch plan or a marketing push. I didn’t run ads or build anticipation. I posted about it a few times and let it go. That wasn’t avoidance. It was intentional. What The Lying Years Is The Lying Years is the second of two memoirs…
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How The Lying Years Connects to Everything Else I Write
(And Why the Memoir Is the Key to My Entire Universe) When people hear I’m working on a recursive novel cycle, a supernatural thriller, a grief-driven metafiction, and a memoir all at once, they usually assume the memoir is the “real-life” outlier — the personal book sitting off to the side while the imaginative fiction…
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An Introduction to The Cancer Diet and The Lying Years
Two memoirs. One story told from opposite sides of the same collapse. Some books are written to chronicle a life.These two were written to survive one. The Cancer Diet and The Lying Years form a matched pair—two memoirs that circle the same events, the same wounds, the same city, and the same self, but from…
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