Essays
Storytelling and Writing
As If Hope Matters: A Critique of Modern Storytelling was published on the first anniversary of the Columbine shootings. The Denver Post changed the title to "As we show, so shall we reap," which is a bit Biblical for my taste, so I restored the original title. It precipitated a lot of positive responses -- most from English teachers, which was gratifying. As predicted, stories have improved since its publication, but there's still a lot of room for improvement.
Intimacy and Transformation, Passion Fruit, and Sound and Silence appeared in the Writer's CROW Bar section of CROW Quarterly Review, which I published in the mid '90s.
People
Everything Worth Having is a heartfelt tribute to Liz Caile and her posthumous book, A Life at Treeline. The Rapture of Being Alive honors Joseph Campbell. Both essays appeared in The Bloomsbury Review, one of the best literary publications in the country.
Popular Culture
What's New About the New Age and Human Nature appeared in The Bloomsbury Review. The latter essay is about Orion, which still has to be one of the most exquisite and intelligent magazines ever conceived.
Equality
Fear and Loathing in "God's Country," published by the Chicago Tribune, was a response to Colorado's anti-gay Amendment 2
