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My writing is all over the place, so I wanted to make a page that contained links to essays and responses that I consider the best of the lot. When I say the best, I mean those posts that are months or years old which still ring true. So many of my posts are passion in the moment, and often I’ll come back to find I disagree with the small-minded reactionary cynic who wrote it. Others–those you see below–are the posts that make me believe I actually have been growing and learning on the nutty path I bomb down.

What I communicate – (Aug. 27, 2009) - A post explaining that my polarized and extremist opinions flow as endlessly as the tides. The purpose here is to demonstrate that I’m aware of my over reactive tendencies and that I rarely cling steadfast to any of them. It’s also an indirect manifesto that claims it’s unfair to reduce any person–speaker or writer–to a single string of words they publicly uttered. We are best judged in speech and thought as these things relate to our actions over time.

4 a.m. on Ocean Boulevard – (Feb. 4, 2008) – This is the post that best illustrates the bittersweet wandering nomad in me. On a cool night toward the end of a Myrtle Beach winter, I sit at the lobby desk writing about how I selfishly think of the people I meet as characters in life’s wandering tale. That same night, Lady Fate introduces me to a “little sister”–a self-described dancer who comes into my lobby to hide from a police cruiser that’s been trailing her.

2016 is about Rio – (Oct. 3, 2009) – A commentary on political opinion in the United States after Rio de Janeiro was chosen as the site of the 2016 Olympics, this article was a criticism of the childish partisan and nationalist reactions exhibited by both parties, and a congratulatory note to the people of Brazil and South America.