I think it’s safe to say that as a kid who grew up in the ’60s and ’70s I’ve never found much value in canned or predictable attempts at storytelling. “Notes on the Golden Country” is all about America and somewhat rebellious in its plot and theme (is being rebellious an American trait?).
It’s been a long time rolling along, but Sound Effect Infinity is finally ready for reading in full through most any meaningful online book outlet out there.
I already feel like a jerk. The only thing that is going to keep me from being selfish and single-minded here in 2024 is if I need surgery or get diagnosed with cancer or just don’t wake up some morning. […]
Leave it to poets to knock over all the mental obstacles to attempts at defining what a person is before the external world really goes to work on them.
A version of this essay was published in the Illumination publication on Medium several weeks ago. These days, I wish as hard as I can for good things that are considered impossible to happen, like there actually being a Santa […]
This is a story about why you love music and why, when that song is playing, the world continues to seem slightly magical.
I had a friend in junior high whose father and uncle decided they’d had enough of his long hair (beautiful, silken, golden wheat-colored, cascading well below his shoulders). They trapped him in the bathroom one Sunday night, held him against […]
It would also be incredibly helpful for all of us to stop worrying so much about how we think other people see us.
Life on the Outskirts of DNA: Transcending Race
I’m in the middle of writing a novel about 21st century racial identity, among other things. Also, pioneering, mixed race farming communities in the 19th century Midwest, and the future Utopia that we are all not going to know we’re […]
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