Not an excuse for being a jerk, but... "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold...

As I pivot from journalism into more creative writing, that has come with more opportunities to present my work to live audiences. But...

Today I read the poem "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden (yeah we share a surname, but no relation. I wish!) and it made me think of...