About Everything We Call Ordinary:

Written in a workingman’s voice, Everything We Call Ordinary navigates the common and uncommon occasions along a seemingly commonplace journey. It examines the highwire act required to balance our search for meaning in our contemporary world, with the banal, often exhaustive need to make ends meet – and the problematic consequences that happen when those ends essentially unravel. Anchored in this gulf between spiritual life and the life of the world, the collection explores the emotional landscape of marriage, fatherhood, and the full realization of one’s authentic self.

Though the narrative begins in darkness – quite literally, as the electricity bill has gone into arrears – the poems revel in the often slight, but momentous victories along the way. In the end, Everything We Call Ordinary reveals that the human spirit supersedes the roadblocks, no matter how great or small, in its quest for illumination. And reveals that what’s most important may in fact be what’s right in front of us.