Self-Portraits

I have started writing prose regularly (check my Instagram account @cmcoxwrites to read it). I write more than I’ve published, and I’ve found that a lot of my recent writing has featured myself as the subject. Many self-portraits. Many new descriptions. I think this is because of how much I have changed in the last…

Grasping at Straws

(Baubles hanging on fishing line over the road and between buildings in the Gay Village in MontrĂ©al, Canada) The more I think about it, the more I admire fishing line. It is strong and versatile and mostly invisible, except when viewed at just the right angle. People use it all the time from many different…

Changed My Mind

(The courtyard of the Freer Museum in Washington, D.C.) I grew up with Evangelical Southern Baptist parents and spent a solid amount of time attending church, youth groups, AWANA, vacation bible schools, and youth camps. When I was 18, shortly after I graduated high school, I became disenchanted with church – with the Evangelical Southern…