This essay was first published on The Daily BS on May 24, 2025. I got my first pair of glasses in the third grade. When the teacher noticed me squinting

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on May 17, 2025. “The Chick-fil-A boys.” That’s how I thought of them after meeting them on a hot July day.

It was a conversation at an ice cream shop that sparked it. There we were in the long, long line that snaked up and back, the aroma of waffle cones

This essay first appeared on The Daily BS on May 10, 2025. “With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It’s all there.

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on May 2, 2025. My people were farmers, men who planted kernels of wheat in dry prairie dirt. They sowed in

By lamp’s soft light on a chilly April day, I open the Bible. This is the verse I read. “For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to