by aaron | Sep 26, 2026 | blog, not-fiction, reviews
I first read Annie Dillard my senior year of college. Dillard is most famous for her Pulitzer-prize winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, but I read Holy the Firm. The book is set in the Pacific Northwest, where I would subsequently move a few years after college. The copy...
by aaron | Aug 4, 2026 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
You are on my website, though on is a term I can’t define or really explain. Whatever it means, very few people are on this website. Occasionally one of them is my mother, and last week I received a text from her that read, When I clicked on your website it took...
by aaron | Apr 18, 2026 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
I often encounter typos when reading. Typos are those little lexical oopsiedoodles that may or may-not survive AI. Will a book written by a human have errors? Hopefully so, because then you’ll be farily certain it was written by a human, although this may only be true...
by aaron | Dec 27, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
All of us have probably heard the phrase, Be Here Now. Whether we got it from Ram Dass or Oasis, Be Here Now simply and succinctly sums up most approaches to meditation as I understand them. Despite being only three words long, this is an oddly challenging...
by aaron | Nov 14, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
We all know black’s the color at the opposite end from white where no light is visible. Despite knowing this, if I asked you to look at the following image and tell me which one is black, you might run into some problems: I recently had dinner with a liberal...