Welcome.

Thanks for joining us at Between Two Things, a little place on the internet for messy humans.

Here, we make mistakes, embrace mystery, and resist simplification.

We eat kale… but also golden Oreos.

We push against our culture-wide tendency toward black-and-white thinking.

We love questions as much as answers.

We can be wrong without being cancelled.

If you ask me, the whole world oughta work that way. Alas, the megaphones have been handed to the most extreme, surest voices. What we hear “out there” is that uncertainty is weakness, not wisdom. We’ve been duped into thinking life is a yes-or-no quiz.

But there’s a lot of space between things, and much goodness thrives in that space.

Between Two Things has three parts:

• regular posts, which are personal essays that wrestle with the ordinariness of my own life alongside life’s biggest, most complicated questions

• Worth It, which are casual round-ups of things I love

  (Mostly I recommend books, but sometimes I tell you about my best sweatpants, podcasts, and writing utensils.)

• BTT Book Club, which kicks off in January 2025!

Thanks for being here. I’d love it if you could forward my newsletter to a friend, subscribe, or hit that little heart button. My brain is full of about nine books I’d like to write, and every boost helps my writing reach the people who could put it on a shelf.

About Me

I’m a writer and teacher with four kids, a husband, a dog, and six five chickens. I have never not lived in the south, which informs a lot of what I have to say.

I have a BA and MA in English and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. I’ve taught writing at Clemson University and The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities. I also teach online for places like Craft Talks and in-person via WRITESHARE, the writers’ network I co-founded in Upstate SC. I’ve worked as Editor of Emrys Journal and Edible Upcountry.

Among other places, my essays have been published in Split Lip, Under the Gum Tree, Motherwell, Paste, South Carolina Review, and Salvation South (as well as forthcoming in HuffPost). I am a recipient of the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, and an essay nominated by Pigeon Pages was recently a finalist for Best of the Net.