Small pieces, written with care

Nineteen poems, stories, letters and essays. Read them, or press play and let them be read to you.

Story

Piano Proposal Story

A seven year old wants a piano. One parent asks for a proposal. The other just says yes.

2 min read · 2 min listen
Piano Proposal Story, part one
Story

Piano Proposal Story

The older brother is good at math, not music, so he builds his little brother's case out of scatter plots and myth.

2 min read · 3 min listen
Piano Proposal Story, part two
Letter

The Father's Letter

A year after the piano arrives, the father who demanded a proposal writes back with something closer to an apology.

3 min read · 4 min listen
Piano Proposal Story, part three
Poem

They Are Going to Die

Everyone you love is already leaving, in quiet ways. A poem about loving anyway.

1 min read · 2 min listen
Poem

Words That Hurt

A poem about the same tongue that comforts strangers and wounds the people closest to it.

1 min read · 2 min listen
Story

The Last Pages

Thirty seven notebooks, not one finished story, and a man on the floor trying to feel something big enough to write down.

9 min read · 13 min listen
Letter

The Vulnerability of Imperfection

Sending someone your rough draft costs more than sending your polished one. That cost is the point.

2 min read · 3 min listen
Essay

Journal Entry on Disorientation and Death

Five forty in the morning, a cat wanting attention, and the sudden thought that today could be the last day.

1 min read · 2 min listen
Letter

8:30am Letter to a Co-Conspirator

A morning smoothie, a supervising cat, and a note to a colleague about excitement, overwhelm, and the shape of a good day.

2 min read · 2 min listen
Poem

Ego Release Reflection

Written in the morning light, after the coffee, before the noise. A note about letting the edges go soft.

1 min read · 2 min listen
Poem

Stolen Focus and Phones

The phone in your pocket promises poems on a walk, then breaks every line before you can write it.

1 min read · 2 min listen
Essay

This Is Soil

No promises of a bushel of apples. Just soil, and what ten dollars a month can help take root in it.

2 min read · 3 min listen
Poem

ALA Sing Along Draft

A campaign sing along about beans, empty cages, and laughing while you tear a system down.

1 min read · 1 min listen
Story

The Island Is Big

A parable about a food forest, a gatekept gardening club, and the potluck group that just asks people to start.

3 min read · 4 min listen
Letter

Letter to Self

A note reminding a scattered mind that focus is a skill you build, not a trait you either have or lack.

1 min read · 2 min listen
Story

The Boy Who Loved Computers

A boy who used to build worlds with friends online, and the phone call that finally gets him off the screen.

2 min read · 3 min listen
Story

Counting Beans

A class assignment to save the world with beans splits into factions, including one that just counts beans forever.

2 min read · 3 min listen
Letter

Dear Caffeine

A breakup letter to caffeine, written on day twelve of travel, in the language of a tiresome old affair.

4 min read · 5 min listen
Essay

How Farms Start

Every factory farm begins with a person searching a question online. What they find shapes what they build.

2 min read · 4 min listen