I am an apprentice storyteller to Connie Regan-Blake in Asheville. I am also a Creative Writing and Narrative Medicine Distinguished Professor at Lenoir-Rhyne University.
From November 2, 2022 until June 2023, a traumatic brain injury shoved me into complete darkness and excruciating, constant pain. I started this Substack in the Fall (so to speak) of 2023 to allow what silence and darkness said to me find words.
A first-person account of my experience as the Attorney General for North Carolina. Totally free.
A place of retreat from the bloomin' buzzin' world of ignorance, incivility, and conflict to explore philosophy, literature, history, and theology and celebrate (without fetishizing) the Great Tradition.
A slow conversation about beautiful and difficult things - transformative storytelling since 2016.