Author name: Dan Swanson

You won’t earn a trophy each time that you win. You don’t get a halo each day you don’t sin. […]

My puppy keeps watch until deep in the night, sitting close by my side while I struggle to write. Sometimes

The ghosts I know do not appear as misty forms that conjure fear. Instead, my ghosts arrive at night to

Life’s a race and we’re not winning. Time has led since the beginning. We can chase and cheat with cunning,

A great experiment, I’ve heard: go think a thought, then write a word, then write a page, and then write

Our bodies are just atoms briefly gathered in one place. How many of those atoms once derived from outer space?

I think a lot about the final thought I’ll have in life. I hope it’s of my loved ones, like

I’d like to soar beyond the place where azure skies meet outer space and hold your hand as we pass

You can’t unsee the things you saw. You can’t undo what’s done. You can’t replace what’s gone to waste. So

The way things are and what we see are not the way things have to be.