Travels

I released an Audiobook! Here’s How:

This year I published my first audiobook. My 2019 poetry collection “All the Beloved Known Things” is now available on Audible, iBooks, and Amazon. I just released by first audiobook, so for my fellow scribes I offer my roadmap: What I Used to Release my Audiobook I used ACX, which is like KDP for audiobooks…

The Starlight Still Within Us

The heart-work is in the hearing. The hearing is in the listening. The listening is in the legend that once upon a time a rocket ship made of words brought us to life and from pathos came ethos and egos and hard work and scattering and scavenging the ditches for ideas that will teach us how to touch the starlight that’s still left in us on this journey back home where it feels like our parents have locked us in a room full of brownies and scorpions.

The Beautiful Life of Marcia Garcia

Instead, she told them: “You are all intelligent and gifted. If you want to do something, you can. Nothing is impossible if you work hard and stay away from bad influences and drugs. You look at some in our streets and you see people without homes, without families, and they are using drugs. They have forgotten to believe in their dreams and now they suffer. When you lose your dreams, you lose everything.” 
 

Why 2020 Was One of the Best Years of my Life

Yesterday I caught up with a friend of twenty years. She asked me how I was doing. “Honestly,” I said, “really amazing, 2020 was one of the best years ever!” “You’re like…THE ONLY ONE I’ve heard say that,” she said, a tone of incredulity underpinning her giggle. She went on to tell me of her…

Upon Turning 35: An Open Letter to Younger Men

—written with my 18 and 20 year old younger brothers in mind— Dear Brothers, It is not that I am much older than you or believe I have concrete answers to life’s burning questions. Honestly, I can rarely cut jalapeños and remember not to wipe my eyes. But having just clocked into my 35th year,…