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Apologies for the lack of new writing over the past month. I’m hoping to have some new writing to share here soon. In the meanwhile, I have been working on a few other things.

April 17, 2026
Love the silent, hate the silence (a letter to my high school Bible teacher)

It’s been twenty years since I left your classroom—the two years I spent working for A’s, memorizing Bible verses, perfecting an impenetrable worldview. Friday mornings, some of us would show up before class, coffee in hand, for conversations about faith and politics. I’ve thought of you. Have you thought of me? I think you must’ve…

March 17, 2026
Degree #4, part 1

I’m done with my MA at Purdue! All that’s left to do is fill out a few forms, pay a thesis deposit fee … and say all the things I really wanted to when I was asked to fill out a grad survey. And I’ve got a lot to say. This is the first part,…

March 4, 2026
My name

In its anglicised, Upper Midwestern form, Meredith is a bit flat. Two syllables. Easy. In Welsh, it’s three, with the emphasis on the penultimate syllable: mah-red-deth. At some point, I might change it to Welsh orthography, but for now, an extra syllable will do.

February 27, 2026
What the Middle Ages Can Tell Us About Racial Reconfiguration and Political Realignment Today

We are living in an era of renewed “flexible definitions,” when everything old is new again — “a moment in which cultural race and racisms, and religious race, jostle alongside race-understood-as-somatic/biological determinations — uncannily renews key medieval instrumentalizations in the ordering of human relations.” The Welsh weren’t the first cornered into renouncing their identity to…

February 24, 2026
Saying Goodbye to America, and Finding Our Town in Cymru

As a bi-national couple, our story has never been a simple one—but it’s always been good.

February 12, 2026
Thoughts from the 2:37 bus for Amalfi

A young woman’s coat has claimed the last free seat on the bus. Incredulous, you would later comment that it was rude of her not to move it. But, hanging on with both hands as the bus trundled along the too-tight turns, I only thought about how proud I was of you.

February 8, 2026
New article on Nation.Cymru

Separated by five years and a day, the events of January 6, 2021 and January 7, 2026 will remain stamped in the memories of Americans for a generation. The first, when we realised that a peaceful transition of power is no longer a given following the attempted insurrection at the US capitol. The second, when…

January 12, 2026
Driving Out the Darkness, or Christmas 2025

It’s harder to drive out the darkness this year. And it doesn’t just come from the world outside. It bubbles up inside, too. The truth is, I doubt the decisions I’ve made and make every single day. I rage at my inability to do more, to go further, to be better. I try to see…

December 24, 2025
When do we stop seeing this as an aberration?

Today, as the United States inches closer toward forcible regime change in Venezuela, I wonder what any of this is for. What’s on the other side of this madness? How long do we insist “this is not who we are” until accepting evidence to the contrary?

December 10, 2025

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