Welcome to the beautiful mess.

I’m John, a frazzled, failing, consistently inconsistent person trying to figure out in real-time how to be human.

I vacillate wildly between imposter’s syndrome and unearned arrogance.

Most of the time I feel like I’m getting life spectacularly wrong but every once in a while a moment of clarity comes when I’m comfortable in my own skin and on the planet.

I’m simultaneously broken hearted at the cruelty human beings are capable of and overwhelmed by their capacity for goodness.

In other words, I think we have a lot in common.

I write about faith, doubt, love, grief, relationships, politics, empathy, mental illness, emotional health, music, food, and stuff that feels important to me. I hope some of it is important to you.

We’ll press in to the painful places, embrace the existential crises, and revel in the insignificant ordinary things that make it all bearable.

Join me here for a blunt, fearless, open-hearted conversation about the beautiful mess of being human.