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• The Water Sure Is Cold. Deep, Too.
• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
• The Seizure
• The First Phone Call
• Stephen King Comes to Phenix, Virginia
• The New Kid
• The Music Stops
• The Gilliam Shed
• Creature from the Black Lagoon
• ’Twas the Day Before Christmas
• The birds and the bees
• An open letter to my suburban neighbors on the state of my sanity
• I Still See You
• Raw Potatoes
• The Accidental Book
• There’s Always a Reason to Laugh
• A Slight Digression On My Own Experience Starting a Rock Band
• How Not To Fry An Egg
• Robbie, Junior
• The Court
• Then and Now: A Brief History of Phenix, Virginia
• Welcome to Phenix: A Nice Place to Live
• The Ghosts of Childhood
• A Peaceful Walk Down By the Water; Or, A Fish Hook to the Groin
• Handwritten Notes While Eating Alone
• I Started Writing Poetry Again; Or, A Brief, Soul Crushing History of Working In a Bagel Shop
• Today Is Not About Me: It’s About the People Who Made Me, Me
• Author Insights: Writing Is a Lonely Endeavor, and Yet It’s Not
• What’s In a Name: Why I chose the title I did for the memoir I am writing
• Red fire trucks and police cars
• I feel like a failure every time I sit down to write
• The flash mob that wasn’t
• Flying death monster from above
• My dog was bitten in the face by a squirrel
• Book Update: Two
• The many benefits of being sick—no, really
• I fell in love with my wife in high school, but thank goodness we never dated
• Polly Was a Fat Dog
• My Dad Died, But He Is Not Dead
• Episode 5 of This Is Me Being Uncomfortable
• The Jeremiah Hamlett Memorial Scholarship Fund, and how this blog will help fund it up to $10,000
• If I am not being creative, I become a lukewarm version of myself and jeopardize my happiness
• But whatever I am has its source back there…
• An Empty Chamber, Black and Hollow and Alone
• The Red Lollipop
• El Chupacabra on a Friday night at 1 a.m.
• The Man Who Walked Off the Face of the Earth
• Where My Father Once Stood
• When Depression Comes to the Workplace
• Grief Is a Fire, Smoldering
• When the nightmares began
• Babies Have Soft Spots on Their Skulls
• In Phenix, Virginia, I Was Born and Raised
• This is Happiness
• Gentle, Little Bird
• It Doesn’t Matter Where We Go
• Sleeping Birds Do Not Sing: A Novel (Excerpt)
• This Is Me Being Uncomfortable: Episode 004
• Do You Not Know How Beautiful You Are?
• The Way I Love You
• This Is Me Being Uncomfortable: Seasonal Affective Disorder (Ep. 003)
• Contemplating Death and the Fragility of Life
• A List of Things I Dislike Strongly Yet Would Still Prefer Do Than Wrap a Christmas Present
• The Junk Drawer of My Childhood
• This Great Big Scary Thing
• The Last Leaf
• Cal Meets Leon Phelps the Cat (When the Lights Go Out at 10:16)
• I Cry Myself to Sleep at Night Sometimes
• I Was Not Mauled or My Face Eaten Off by a Territorial Bear
• True Facts from the Small Town of Phenix, Virginia: The Aces
• Down by the Water
• But When You Give a Feast, Invite the Poor, the Crippled, the Lame, the Blind
• Thoughts From My Grandmother’s Funeral; or, This is Not Sad, Depressing Commentary
• Snapping Green Beans with Granny
• The Novel That Wasn’t a Novel; or, A Memoir About Paranoid Schizophrenia, Friendship, and Goodbyes
• Birds of One Feather
• A Pocket Knife From My Grandfather
• A Father’s Letter To His Children
• Calm the Negative Voice in Your Head; or, My Son Urinated on a Toilet Seat and Couldn’t Be More Proud of Himself
• Fish Swim Forth and Stay
• Hello, Anxiety. I Know You Are There
• In response to Phenix Being Named to the 10 Small Towns In Virginia Where You’d Never Want To Live
• One bacon, egg, and cheese bagel later
• Letter to my Grandmother
• Overcoming Anxiety: What is Anxiety?
• 3 Reasons We Were Meant to be Together
• Overcoming Anxiety: Meet the Author
• We None Truly Ever Die
• Overcoming Anxiety: An Introduction
• A Christmas (Eve) to Remember
• How to Make a Grown Man Cry
• While On a Run, I Met a Man Who Had Lost 80 Percent of His Hip to Lymphoma. He Talked, I Listened
• Lord, Help Me Be the Person My Dog Thinks I Am
• Two Simple Words
• Hi, My Name is Jeff, and I Suffer from Anxiety
• Do I Pack for My Dad’s Funeral?
• Let It Wayne
• Text Messages with Friends: The Longtime Friend
• Are You Comfortable Driving a Tractor?
• May 21 Is My Dog’s Birthday, Not the Day My Dad Died