
On the Perceived Escapism of Birds
My mom once told me that when she was a child, she dreamed of being a bird so that she could fly away. I have never forgotten those words and the emptiness in her eyes.

On the Man Versus Bear Discourse / Part One
Late one night, in the mid-nineties, decades before social media and viral everything and the 'Man versus Bear' memes, I went alone to a bar near my apartment.