Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up.

“I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today wa…”

“What if Sam's heart got broken again? As with most kids who are fourteen, it ha…”

“Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head…”

“Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that i…”