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...
by aaron | Nov 2, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
The data on Alejandro Kirk are clear: he’s the slowest player in Major League Baseball. Kirk’s so slow that despite being twenty years older than him, I’m (mostly) confident I could beat him around the bases. Admittedly, I could never hit a 98mph slider, which is a...
by aaron | Oct 22, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
William Miller was a clergyman from Massachusetts who was certain Jesus would return on October 22, 1844. Your reading this now says enough about that theory. This was not the first time Miller predicted Jesus’ return. In 1822 Miller postulated that Jesus would...
by aaron | Oct 18, 2025 | blog, fiction
It starts in your hands. You wake one morning, tired and groggy, and it’s not until brushing your teeth you realize the soreness in your hands. As the day progresses tightness expands across your low back. You stretch and pop three aspirin but by evening it’s clear...
by aaron | Aug 4, 2025 | blog, Essays, Uncategorized
Billy Beane is a former baseball player whose career most people zip past for the simple fact that it was pretty average. But I find the fact that he played major league baseball for six years pretty awesome! Seriously—it’s amazing when anyone gets to the...
by aaron | Jun 28, 2025 | blog, fiction
This morning the light seeps through the trees as if it had been spilled. The sun is distant and hazy and you watch it slowly climb. It’s in no rush and neither should you be. Your back is tight and it’s not until you pinch your shoulders together that you...
by aaron | Jun 16, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
No Kings is an objectively silly name. Outside of very specific revolutionary situations it sounds goofy, a name for a porn production company or a casino slot machine. Googling either option makes me nervous, so instead I’ll talk about the recent No Kings protests,...