2016
Good Men Project, “Sex Is Not an Emotion: What Widowers Are Looking For”

Open to Hope, “Deep Calls to Deep: Why Grievers Understand Each Other”

Huffington Post, “Halloween: Feasting on the Dead”

Huffington Post, “Introverts and Grief”

Huffington Post, “Dating After Death”

Huffington Post, “Lost to Suicide: Robin Williams”

Rebelle Society, “Bang the Drum”

Mindful Matter, “Do Not Go Quietly”

Huffington Post, “Grief’s Solace of Nature”

Lunch Ticket, “Dress the Mouse in Black”

Huffington Post, “Laughter and Grief”

Elephant Journal, “Grief Is Not the Wolf: The Language of Loss”

Huffington Post, “We Need to Encourage Grieving Men”

Open to Hope, “Dark World Community”

Huffington Post, “I Miss My Wife, But I Am Comforted Knowing Her Organs Saved Four Lives”

Mindful Matter, “Listen to the Dawn”
      nature meditation

Huffington Post, “Grieving Our Pets”

Rebelle Society, “Do Not Look Away”

Huffington Post, “8 Stupid Things Caring People Say”

Huffington Post, “5 Reasons Joe Biden’s Public Grief Was Important”

Huffington Post, “Valentine for Grief”

River Teeth, “Waiting for Owls”

Huffington Post, “Swearing and Grief”

Huffington Post, “Delayed Grieving”

Open to Hope, “Re-Imagining Grief”

Previous Years      selected
Rebelle Society, “The Hard Romance of Grief”      

Manifest-Station, “Out of Death, Something”
            A gathering of families who donated the organs of their loved ones.

Mindful Matter, “Compassion is a River”
            How do we create and maintain compassion for those who are suffering?

Under the Gum Tree, “Driving to Find Home”
            Driving across California to find home after the death of a wife.

Good Men Project, “Why We Need To Give Men Permission to Grieve”
            Let yourself grieve now, when people are willing to help.

Mindful Matter, “Until the Land is Covered in Tranquility”
            On a nonviolent Christian/Buddhist demonstration against nuclear weapons.

Good Men Project, “Stupid Things That Caring People Say About Grief”
            Wrong things that even caring people say to those who are grieving.

The Manifest-Station, “One Breath Out”
            On breathing, compassion, and grief.

The Edge: Holistic Living, “Personal Paradigm Shift”
            Learning to love as deeply as I grieve.

Open to Hope, “The Fierce Tribe of After”
            Starting the dialogue about grief in our society.

Modern Loss, “A Day for Lovers, Without Mine”
            The first Valentine’s Day after my wife died.

Antler Journal, “Spirituality of the Wilderness”
            Searching for the presence of the Divine outdoors.

The Manifest-Station, “Grief Walkers”
            In grief, there is a great need for kindness.

Citron Review, “Eating Grief”
            The return of physical senses and the rediscovery of food.

Modern Loss, “Between Death and Goodbye”
            Saying goodbye to my wife after her organ donation.

Under the Sun, “Deeper Lake of Blue,” chapter from unpublished grief memoir
            The shock and chaos of the first week after a death.

Chautauqua Literary Journal, “Hiking with Kierkegaard”
            Experiencing all the dimensions of nature, and the difficulty of sharing this with others.

Saint Katherine Review, “Reweaving Burned Threads,” chapter from unpublished grief memoir
            Searching for a reason to pull my life together after the death of my wife.

Junk: A Literary Fix, “Mountain Light”
            Experiencing moments of eternity in ordinary life.

Burlesque Press, “Dear Famous Writer”
            Having fun at Brian Doyle’s expense.

Literal Latte Journal, “Tinkering with Grief in the Woods,” award winner
            A week at Gethsemani Monastery to deal with grief.

River Teeth Journal, “The Labyrinth of Water,” from unpublished grief memoir
            Trying to discern where my dead have gone.

Chautauqua Literary Journal, “Hiking Over the Edge,” award winner
            Going into nature to deal with grief.

Poems      selected
Bluffs Literary Magazine, “It’s Jazz, Man”
Bluffs Literary Magazine, “Subliminal Iris”
Bluffs Literary Magazine, “By the Fingers”
South Dakota Review, “Ram’s Head”
DMQ Review, “Snow at Mukojima”
Midwest Prairie Review, “Bagging Corn”
Bluffs Literary Magazine, “Good for the Tongue”
Bluffs Literary Magazine, “Duct Tape”
River Oak Review, “String Thing”
Swink Magazine, “Whack a Mole”
Swink Magazine, “On the Discernment of Beings in the Nine Levels of the Bardo”
Crab Orchard Review, “Last Farmer’s Market”
Crab Orchard Review, “Dawn Before Planting”
Fifth Wednesday Journal, “Painting with the Dead”
Disquieting Muses Quarterly, “Muscongus Bay”
Disquieting Muses Quarterly, “Blues”
Spoon River Poetry Review, “Anger #15”
Spoon River Poetry Review, “Smokin’”
Liturgical Credo, “At Merton’s Gethsemani Monastery”
Clackamas Literary Review, “There’s Another Blue”

Literary Criticism
book review of Meghan O’Rourke’s Once, in Rain Taxi Review of Books, Summer 2012
book review of Mark Kraushaar’s Uncertainty Principle, Rain Taxi Review, Spring 2012
book review of Kelsea Habecker’s Hollow Out, in the Colorado Review
book review of Kevin Stein’s Sufficiency of the Actual, in Hayden’s Ferry Review

Anthologies
Ordinary Time, chapbook, six poems, Grandview Hotel Poets, 2016
Yosemite Meditations for Adventurers, Yosemite Conservancy, photography by Michael Frye,
            Yosemite Conservancy, 2014
Directions Home, letterpress folio, four poems, Gold Quoin Press, 2014
Bluffs and Five Bridges, chapbook, three poems, Grandview Hotel Poets, 2011
“Funeral Liturgy for AIDS,” and “Funeral Procession Litany,” in Shaping Sanctuary,
            ed. by Kelly Turney, Reconciling Congregation Program, 2000.

Books
Winter Walk, single poem letterpress book, Gold Quoin Press, forthcoming
Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite, University of Nebraska Press, 2012
Is There Fun After Paul? A Theology of Clowning, Resource Publications
And Everyone Shall Praise: Resources for Multicultural Worship, Pilgrim Press
Prepare the Way: Daily Meditations for Advent and Lent, Pilgrim Press