activism… The End of Justice for Our Neighbors 20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025 On December 16th, I mailed out the final 990 from North Carolina Immigration Law & Justice Center (founded as Fayetteville Justice for Our Neighbors) to the IRS. I notified Truist…
activism… Time Travel and Guilty of Everything 25 Nov 202525 Nov 2025 Aside from giving two interviews in January, I've gone a year without engaging with the news media. I am essentially a time traveler from November 2024. This is, of course,…
activism… Why You’re Scared and Why It’s Not A Personal Failing 24 Oct 202525 Nov 2025 Several years ago, before the pandemic, the Institute for Precarious Consciousness released a zine: "We Are All Very Anxious." The thesis of the zine was that capitalism generally has a…
Poetry Summer Poem 30 Jun 20251 Jul 2025 It is sand. Pines. Sand. Artillery. Pines. Sand. Cardealerships for miles. I am 40. I remember standing on the edge of the Atlantic,New Year’s Eve 1999.I was 14, soon to be 15,and as midnight struckI remember…
Memoir… Philpot 24 Apr 202516 May 2025 By now, I should have learnedthat Pepsi for its own sakeisn’t really whyPhilpot would steal it back to the barracks—a sack of America's second favorite under his ACUs,risking his skin.That…
Poetry… Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt: A Review 29 Mar 202529 Mar 2025 “Men are walking on the moon today,planting their footsteps as if they werezucchini on a dead worldwhile over 3,000,000 people starve to deathevery year on a living one.EarthJuly 20, 1969”Brautigan…
activism… On “Diary of A Man in Despair” 18 Mar 202520 Sep 2025 Per Goodreads, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen "began a secret diary in May 1936, which describes how a psychosis enveloped an entire society, enabling Hitler's rise to power, and the Nazi regime. His…
activism… Face to Face with Fascism: Reflections on The Long March for Unity and Justice 14 Dec 202431 Dec 2024 Foreshadowing By late September, I was nearly certain Donald Trump would win the election. The signs were everywhere, figuratively and literally—even in unexpected places like the Long March for Unity…
climate… The Next Disaster 29 Sep 202429 Sep 2024 Western North Carolina is in crisis, along with much of the southeastern United States. My aunt in Tennessee was woken at 2:00 a.m. by the sheriff’s department, warning of the…
activism The Fraught Recent History of the Human Relations Commission 24 Sep 202424 Sep 2024 In October 2020, I decided not to seek a second term on the Fayetteville-Cumberland Human Relations Commission (FCHRC) after serving for two years. While the Commission’s official mission was to…
An Unhappy Consciousness 