Saint Hewett

I've been listening to the Penny and Sparrow album Struggle Pretty on repeat through this week. It took me a while to catch the Luke 15...

When Buttercup gets into it with the Dread Pirate Roberts before his big reveal, he shouts at her that her true love often spoke of her...

I've thrown up on exactly one nurse since my last post. Not all of my stories make it on the internet, but this one definitely will. I...

I'm a day late with this post. I have what I consider to be a reasonable excuse: antibiotics. Don't get too worried here. Let's meander...

Miracles don't happen. Except when they do. I waffle back and forth on what to call a miracle. I'm pretty content to say the time someone...

I told Anja my legs and glutes were tight from upping my exercise this past week, and she had me lay down on my back on the physio table....

I've had a lot of people reach out and offer help or ask for updates regarding my last post. First off, thank you. Thank you to the...

When I found my counselor in New Zealand two years ago, I reached out to the one whose online bio said she specialized in grief and...

C. S. Lewis said that mythology had hidden "good lies" that point towards the truth of Jesus. He found the biblical themes in ancient...

Lin Manuel Miranda has a gift, so here's some nice listening music for reading this post today. Silence can be hard to find, but I've...

Hot take: the most underrated film of the century is Anna and the Apocalypse. Hear me out because there is an almost guaranteed chance...

I never signed anything binding to assure any audience that I'd post weekly, but I actually value all the people who check this site to...

This week at our all staff conference, Michele Phoenix (yes, the Michele Phoenix) shared an encouraging video about serving young people...

Graduation was last week, and Wednesday was the teacher wrap up day for the 2019-2020 school year. Wednesday was also a meeting and...

It's overcast and rainy here in Kandern; it has been for several days. The forecast predicts more weather like this and a thunderstorm...

I cut my hair off on Monday. Like, a lot of it. I chopped nearly a foot off in a braid, and my housemate took clippers to the rest. After...

I don't post absolutely everything on the internet, but the euphemistic pain I was describing in last week's post only got worse through...

"How are you today?" one of my AP seniors asked when he came into the room Wednesday. "Honestly, not great," I told him since I'd already...

Six years ago, I started praying for my best friend to move to Germany. Five years ago, he moved to Germany - literally the week I moved...

Last year I wrote a post about how I was living in an apparent utopia, and I drew some comparisons to LeGuin's short story "The Ones Who...