I'm a single father holding it together in a small Midwestern town. Most of my time goes into raising my daughter and keeping our old three-flat from falling down around us. The building is moored in the heart of our downtown, anchors the lives of my family and other men facing similar challenges, and is the launching pad for my community work.

While our community is a generally thriving one, eternal vigilance is the cost of success, so I strive to nurture it through relationships between the fathers, faith leaders, politicians and business-people in town.

Online, I deal in irreverent analysis. Whether it's micro-blogging arguments, medium-format essays, or testing how much fiction can smuggle ideas past people's guards, my work keeps circling politics, technology, human development, humor, and power—sometimes even on purpose.