Illinois: Land of Abe Lincoln, the Vampire Hunter
What studio would take that kind of risk on a title that so clearly sounds like a joke?
Occupation: Books
I wasn’t expecting my first full-time job to be at a warehouse.
Hometown Appreciation
I’m only just now exploring places I’ve driven past hundreds of times.
My Imagination Runs Wild (Or: Mom, the Manawa Dam Collapsed and I’m Thinking About Grief Again)
A trickle becomes a torrent; a drop in a bucket becomes a catastrophic flood.
Blossoms
Not every experience survives translation into meaning.
Time, Stalled
In a happy marriage of Star Wars and Friedrich Nietzsche: the abyss strikes back.
All I Want for Christmas Is You (and Single-Payer Healthcare)
We call this tradition—because why wouldn’t we—our “Filling Out of the Carle Foundation Hospital’s Application for Financial Assistance Christmas Tradition,” or FOCFHAFACT, for short.
Politics as Usual…feat. Chance the Rapper
The word alderman has Anglo-Saxon origins: a noble (serving the king) as ruler of a local district. Quite literally it means “old man.”
Junctions
While at home, I went on a walk, remembering how, after a long rain, the air would smell like cupcakes or Cheerios as the fumes from General Mills wafted over the trees and rooftops.
We Would Prefer Not To
Turning out in droves despite rain and wind and snow, we marched and chanted and beat on bucket-drums and blew on whistles and papered the campus with fliers. We disrupted classes. We shut down buildings.
