Writing
Books
100 Ways to Love Yourself and Why It Matters to All of Us
What might our world be like if you truly loved yourself, if I loved myself, and every other person did the same?
I NEED you to love yourself. The world needs you to love yourself. The survival of humanity and the planet depends upon it.....
100 Ways to Love Yourself and Why It Matters to All of Us is a guide....
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Essays
In this essay, I explore the concept of White privilege and some specific ways that I, as a White man in America, have benefited my entire life from this entitlement that I inherited solely because of my skin color. I also define and briefly describe dominant White culture and White supremacy.
When I first heard about White privilege, I felt confusion and defensiveness. So, I investigated the concept and my relationship to it. I hope my reflections will clarify what it is, motivate other White people to look for its presence in their lives, and cause us to consider how all of us – especially sisters and brothers of color – suffer harm from injustices spawned by the systems and culture that perpetuate White privilege.
In this essay, I explore the decades-long impacts of being sexually assaulted by a Catholic clergyman when I was 16. I further declare what I want from Roman Catholic bishops, Catholics in the pews, as well as from myself in response to that abuse.
CAUTION: This essay explores Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal. It contains brief descriptions of two sexual assaults.
A poem about the Christmas story playing out within my own life.