Your God is Too Small A Dispatch from Minneapolis

My new thing has been writing about being outside and God. Here's a recent post. If you like it throw me a subscribe!

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I've been praying for you and your recovery!

Also - hope you all are doing okay

Well that's a bummer

Dang BlueSky I keep forgetting you

What a great review!

Thank you!

sorry I missed this!

I very rarely require or need outside affirmation on things I write. But today I received some positive feedback at the exact right time. (Not from swole Jesus. )

Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.

She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

a close up of a man 's face in front of a painting ALT: a close up of a man 's face in front of a painting

I am writing a literary novel about what happens when the sacred becomes a commodity. It's weird. Like really weird. But this is the first time I've felt urgency in my writing since my mom died. GIF is an unrequested clue to the story.

I'll take it!

Minnesota Book Awards.

Dude looks like a haunted painting of a recently deceased Victorian child

Update: Nietzsche was well received by some, aggressively denied by a few, and revelatory for a few more—as it should be.

I’m about to ask 20 ready-to-graduate seniors to read Nietzsche at 8:30 am.

Holy crap

…a lot

This. And I’ve been asking myself this question a lot, as somebody who can weather most things due to a lot of financial and other privilege.

Oh wow

Publishing’s failures of great books is legion. I’m glad it exists.

I just re-read Psalms of My People and it crushed me again. In the best possible way.

If you aren’t familiar with Lenny’s work—get on it. A voice that consistently inspires and challenges me.

Kelly! Hello.

My latest novel — DISPATCHES FROM PARTS UNKNOWN — is a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.

Meet the Finalists: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE | 2025 Minnesota Book Awards YouTube video by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library

Congratulations to @jmillwrites.bsky.social @antontreuer.bsky.social @bryanbliss.bsky.social and Kirstin Cronn-Mills on being finalists in the YA category of this year’s MN Book Awards! 🙌🏽✨

It was fun interviewing them for the Friend’s Meet the Finalists feature. Good luck to all. ✌🏽

We’ll see if it sticks! I enjoyed it though, and generally like fishing.

Give me time. I’ll get there too