James’ Substack

My personal Substack

Find humor, irreverent cartoons and sketches, prose on modern living and mindfulness, poetry and original guitar-based music. Also meet cultural legends like Ayahuasca Labrador, Flat White Jesus and Barry from Wallaroo!

Photographs, writing, musings... bit of a journal really.

Books and other stuff.

Kampala Street Heat is written from Uganda's capital and talks about the city from my perspective - one, two or more stories at a time.

Ruminations on religion, politics, history, and life from the PNW.

Breakup letters to the matrix. Emotional truth, quadral presence, and the quiet rebellion of becoming real. No performance. No fixing. Just the field, felt

Interesting or amusing thoughts, aphorisms, insights. Microstories, poetics, art. No politics. Occasionally some venting/sleepytalk.

Fiction / Non-Fiction / Voluntaryism

Horror and strange short fiction

Former dance artist in communities & schools, advocate for childhood. We need to stop pathologising kids experiences. Back in Philly after 26 years in Glasgow Scotland. Mum.

Essays on Irish Christianity in the first millennium, with a focus on biblical interpretation.

Carving Out A Spot In Coffee

Preparing essays and materials for the first Empire History Month, provisionally scheduled for May 2025. Contributions welcome!