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Memoir
- 3 Reasons We Were Meant to be Together
- A brief history of Anti-Lou
- A Christmas (Eve) to remember
- A father’s letter to his children on Father’s Day
- A Greater Plan: A Son Remembers His Dad on Father’s Day
- A List of Things I Dislike Strongly Yet Would Still Prefer Do Than Wrap a Christmas Present
- A little piece of Shauna’s heart
- A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
- A pocket knife from my grandfather
- A Slight Digression On My Own Experience Starting a Rock Band
- An empty chamber, black and hollow and alone
- Are you comfortable driving a tractor?
- Babies Have Soft Spots on Their Skulls
- But whatever I am has its source back there…
- But When You Give a Feast, Invite the Poor, the Crippled, the Lame, the Blind
- Cal Meets Leon Phelps the Cat (When the Lights Go Out at 10:16)
- Contemplating death and the fragility of life
- Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Do I Pack for My Dad’s Funeral?
- Do You Not Know How Beautiful You Are?
- Down by the Water
- El Chupacabra on a Friday night at 1 a.m.
- Episode 5 of This Is Me Being Uncomfortable
- Fish Swim Forth and Stay
- Flying death monster from above
- For sale: Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs
- Gentle, Little Bird
- Grief Is a Fire, Smoldering
- Hello, Anxiety. I Know You Are There
- Hi, My Name is Jeff, and I Suffer from Anxiety
- How Not To Fry An Egg
- How to Make a Grown Man Cry
- I Cry Myself to Sleep at Night Sometimes
- I fell in love with my wife in high school, but thank goodness we never dated
- I Love You So Much, I’m Eating Sardines
- I still see you
- I Was Not Mauled or My Face Eaten Off by a Territorial Bear
- I’ve been thinking about my own mortality a lot lately
- If I am not being creative, I become a lukewarm version of myself and jeopardize my happiness
- In Phenix, Virginia, I Was Born and Raised
- In response to Phenix Being Named to the 10 Small Towns In Virginia Where You’d Never Want To Live
- It Doesn’t Matter Where We Go
- Let It Wayne
- Letter to my Grandmother
- Lord, Help Me Be the Person My Dog Thinks I Am
- May 21 Is My Dog’s Birthday, Not the Day My Dad Died
- My Dad Died, But He Is Not Dead
- My dog was bitten in the face by a squirrel
- One bacon, egg, and cheese bagel later
- Overcoming Anxiety: An Introduction
- Overcoming Anxiety: Meet the Author
- Overcoming Anxiety: What is Anxiety?
- Polly Was a Fat Dog
- Red fire trucks and police cars
- Robbie, Junior
- Sleeping Birds Do Not Sing: A Novel (Excerpt)
- Snapping Green Beans with Granny
- Stephen King Comes to Phenix, Virginia
- Text Messages with Friends: The Longtime Friend
- The Court
- The First Phone Call
- The flash mob that wasn’t
- The Ghosts of Childhood
- The Gilliam Shed
- The Junk Drawer of My Childhood
- The Lady Next Door
- The Last Leaf
- The man who hated caller ID
- The Man Who Walked Off the Face of the Earth
- The Music Stops
- The New Kid
- The novel that wasn’t a novel
- The Red Lollipop
- The Seizure
- The Sound of His Voice, Mumbled and Deep
- The Water Sure Is Cold. Deep, Too.
- The Way I Love You
- Then and Now: A Brief History of Phenix, Virginia
- This Great Big Scary Thing
- This is Happiness
- This Is Me Being Uncomfortable: Episode 004
- This Is Me Being Uncomfortable: Seasonal Affective Disorder (Ep. 003)
- Thoughts From My Grandmother’s Funeral; or, This is Not Sad, Depressing Commentary
- Today Is Not About Me: It’s About the People Who Made Me, Me
- True Facts from the Small Town of Phenix, Virginia: The Aces
- Two Simple Words
- We None Truly Ever Die
- Welcome to Phenix: A Nice Place to Live
- When Depression Comes to the Workplace
- When geese attack; or, how I almost got my ass kicked by a Canadian goose
- When the nightmares began
- Where My Father Once Stood
- While On a Run, I Met a Man Who Had Lost 80 Percent of His Hip to Lymphoma. He Talked, I Listened
- ’Twas the day before Christmas
Poetry
Writing
The Adventures of Fatherman
- (Oh) Henry
- A Child’s Imagination
- A Peaceful Walk Down By the Water; Or, A Fish Hook to the Groin
- Coaching Advice From Your New Soccer Coach Who Knows Nothing About Soccer
- Colored Sketch of My Daughter Annabelle
- Colored Sketch of My Son Henry
- Conversations With My 2 Year Old Daughter: Episode 1
- Dear kids, stop calling my shorts “a bathing suit”
- Henry, stop biting the trash can
- How to Administer Ear Drops to a Small (Very Strong) Child
- I Miss Your Speech Impediment
- Mikey, the Ninja Turkey: A Thanksgiving Tale, As Told By My Five Year Old Son
- My kids didn’t think I could still dunk. I had to prove them wrong.
- My Little Anti-Authoritarians
- No Other Place I Would Rather Be
- On Second Thought, I Think I’ll Just Hang Out Here a Little Longer
- One Little Monkey Jumping on the Bed
- Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: A Brief Book Review
- Ready or Not, Here I Come
- Show, don’t tell
- Sketch off!
- Slow Down, Time
- Stuff My Three Year Old Son Said Today: Volume 1
- Stuff My Three Year Old Son Said Today: Volume 2 (A Halloween Special)
- Summer waterpark alternative
- Ten Things You Shouldn’t Say To Your Pregnant Wife Who is Full Term and Could Go Into Labor Any Minute
- The Banana Heads: A graphic novel
- Welcome to the First Week of Swimming Lessons
- When my kids start talking to me about Minecraft