I am a husband, father, writer, lawyer, professor, amateur philosopher, sometimes theologian, cultural commentator, and a veritable son of the working class. I believe that the simple and eloquent communication of big ideas is vitally important. I also believe that beauty can be found in the ugly places of life – in the mundane and the ordinary, the desperate and the macabre.

Despite being educated, perhaps over educated, I have been reluctant to speak for fear of adding another windbag to an enormous chorus of internet bloviators. However, after prayerful discernment and spiritual direction, I am launching this blog with the hope of promoting my upcoming novels and expressing my ideas in the interludes between work and family life.

This blog is dedicated to All Saints. It is dedicated to those who prayed for their children, fought, drank and served prison sentences, lived like angels in this world, worked long hours for little pay, those tormented by madness, for those who stood vigilant in emergency rooms and fire stations, rocked their babies late into the night and then buried them, suffered and found healing or suffered until death, cried, laughed, howled, screamed, and most of all repented. To all those who are dead and forgotten or alive and ignored, to all those who care to remember the dead or perhaps recognize the living, this blog is for you.

Welcome to Grit, Gospel & Grace.