Saint Hewett

I miss Bryce. This is a post about grief and loss as much as it is a post about joy and celebration, so if you can’t handle that paradox...

One of the highlights of teaching is when I get to learn from my students. I'm so proud of these resilient, curious, thoughtful young...

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...

Friday afternoon felt like it took a decade of my life in stress as I opened a "letzte mahnung" from the wheelchair company with the...

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...

This is an angry post. Anger is a secondary emotion, and there're layers of other things covered up right now, but let me give some...

After getting a prescription for a new wheelchair in September and a series of fittings, emails, and prayers, I have news on my...

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...

Any student death would be a tragedy. But this wasn’t just any student. This was one of the four people I’ve agreed to get matching...

When I was in first grade, my dad used to read the Chronicles of Narnia with me before bed each night. I was learning to read, and...

I finished reading The Satanic Verses this weekend. It's the long novel that got author Salman Rushdie into so much trouble with Islamic...

This is a tribute to Lee Pace’s eyebrows: they are beautiful and bold, and we all know how much I’m obsessed with eyebrows. Also, today...

Well, here we are in 2021, and no one is sad to leave 2020 behind, but let's not forget it's the year that gave us a Maccabeats cover of...

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

When I was in high school, I fell in love with Ryan Clark's voice. My passionate and undying love has not wavered in the past fifteen...

I had a different plan for this week... for this year... for my life. The Lord laughs at my plans. I was talking to Givorgy on the phone...

My parents accidentally raised a major nerd. Or maybe they did it on purpose the second time. Regardless, I’m one of the minority of the...

There's an email in my BFA inbox dated September 2, 2013 from Clint and Helen Taylor that has a subject line, "Welcome to BFA!" This...

I was chatting with one of my first students from BFA and her fiancé, and Alyssa reminisced about the first week of class with me as her...