Here are ramblings I’ve written before trying to rehabilitate this space into a hub for journalism. Reader be warned.
Only Scrooge in ‘Scrooged’: Scrapping ‘A Christmas Carol’ in a Christmas Classic
My Capstone Research Paper to fulfill my Bachelor’s in English
Keep reading“How can you still be alive?” – Dethklok
I am writing my memoir, in earnest now, as I tentatively started to about twenty years ago. It’s a long, slow, grueling process, lurching forward in sporadic, drunken spurts. I am, as of this typing, 25k words into it. My lofty goal is 144,000 words, which would put it on par with Dave Egger’s Heartbreaking…
Keep reading“Been here before / though there’s something in the air this time…”
I don’t know if your high school experience was like mine, but I often felt unloved, misunderstood, and alien to those around me. I felt like some anomaly in the halls. I wasn’t conventionally attractive, not particularly sharp or acute, and most certainly devoid of athletic ability. I was a picture perfect assemblage of mediocrity.…
Keep reading“Somebody leaves, someone arrives/Something is gone, and I’m still alive”
A colleague has passed away. Our contemporaries said someone should write something about it; about him. I didn’t actually like him. We had only one interaction and it wasn’t pleasant. By no means am I glad he’s gone; far from it. But I don’t mourn him. I don‘t have anything negative to say about him…
Keep reading“Years have proved / to offer nothing since you’ve moved”
Wherein I consider the honesty and pragmatic nature of depression…
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“I rarely see you when you’re smiling / it really gets under my skin”
Wherein I share a work in progress about love…
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“Shame you left my life so soon, you should have told me, hey, but you left me Far Behind”
Wherein I ponder my cancellation…
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I apologize for breathing your air…
In which I share a brief timeline of the world before, and slightly after, I entered it…
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