jack kerouac introduced me to the importance of the world “ephemeral.” yesterday i looked out at the houses on my block being abused by the wind and thought how my neighborhood imagines itself as having long history and an infinite future but how all those houses will be eroded by the elements sooner than a [...]
where to start with yesterday. we slept in but i woke up every few hours starting before light to the sound of the wind whipping outside. our bedroom is on the northwest corner and it seemed so exposed and like the wind was trying to tear it right off the building. slept fitfully. got up [...]
i’ve been reading robert traver lately. he was a very well-respected trout fishing author from the u.p. people have described his writing as “comfortable, like an old shoe.” sort of a patriarch, with a good sense of humor and an affection for bourbon. good stuff. he wrote the testament of a fisherman, a piece of [...]
my car got broken into friday night. they smashed the rear passenger-side window and then tore my deck out of the dash with a crowbar, by all indications. they also stole a book of cds and the cd holder on my sun visor. i discovered the mess saturday morning and spent the first part of [...]
imperceptibly, the gray skies of winter have overtaken minnesota the past week or two. there have not been many sunny moments. even when the sun has been out, it’s so far off and alien that it might as well be cloudy. on sunday i was writing and i wanted to accurately describe the cloudy winter [...]
a forgotten incident from our trip to california… the day we spent travelling from calistogo to the pacific coast was actually one of my favorite days. first, we had to drive across the ridge between napa valley and sonoma valley. some of the craziest roads ever. high, dry mountains. an impossibly twisty road. steep switchbacks. [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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