Public Journal #1 - Maintaining meaning while robots join the game of life.

A search for the inner child.

A poem

a poem

Four days at 10,500ft. A backpacking travelogue.

The reason I refer to myself as a fool.

Using existential arithmetic to figure out who and what's important.

Over the River
/ Short Story

Through the open window the green trees moved fast, the burnt red rock slow, and the blue sky above...

To consider life from the height of a bird, one comes to see things with a freshness that is often revealing...

I was trying not to acknowledge the feeling. To think about it would be to bring it about and, quite frankly, now was...

I’m looking for a new chair. The one I have is cheap, made of some flimsy fake-leather imitation, and also...

The helicopters are whirring above. I heard the first sounds of sirens about thirty minutes ago; they started and the...

It was the summer without cheer. ‍Marred in memory by countless days all the same, long spent oppressed under the...

(735 words) I have come to believe that writing is, at its core, a job not of the proficient visionary but one of the...

My memory is for shit.‍ I’m like Ten-Second Tom, plus a moment or two. ‍“In one ear and out the other,” as my mom...

(2987 words) He is the reason I carry a pocket voice-recorder at all times. In the three days I knew him, Ray showed...

(1151 words) It's hard to imagine a more poignant set of lyrics than those beginning Daniel Johnston’s 1982 track...

I met my best friend on Christmas Day, 2005. Two days ago, on October 4th, 2020, I said goodbye...

An early morning saw us out of Hue. After the sheister "Lee," plus our first encounter with torrential downpour...

I was right: last night turned out to be an absolute shit-show. For whichever of our sins danced under the cover...

Seven weeks ago, I was in the process of apartment hunting in-and-around Los Angeles whilst simultaneously planning...

In August of 2018, my roommate Griffin and I booked travel from Los Angeles to Vietnam with the idea of riding...

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