After many (too many?) rounds of editing, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is locked and loaded for its March 13th launch date. Here is the cover!!!

Since the term ended, I’ve gone through some swings in energy. And I’m remembering and realizing that it’s almost always this same pattern. The terms and the workloads may change, but this after-pattern is pretty constant.

A lot has changed since the last time I was posting regularly in the fall of 2020, so I thought it was high time to catch you all up, bring some continuity to this site, and fill in the plot holes. And anyone who knows me, or has read this site before will be unsurprised I'm doing it through songs.

I was home sick from work. A bug had been rampaging through my grad program, and it was my turn. So I'd gone to bed early the night before. This was a good thing, because when I woke up, I had an email from Jill McCabe Johnson, the publisher at Wandering Aengus Press, sent the night before, asking if we could find a time for a call so she could ask me something.

About a month and a half ago, I did a thing. Today, I get to tell you that my book manuscript won the Wandering Aengus Press prize for nonfiction, which means MY BOOK IS GETTING PUBLISHED!

To make things easier for submitting authors, the editors at Wandering Aengus Press and its imprint, Trail to Table Press, have decided to combine submissions. We will publish up to two winners for...

Yesterday, on the new moon and the lunar new year, I submitted a full-length book manuscript to the Wandering Aengus Press Book Awards. The manuscript I submitted is a collection of fourteen personal essays. The topics I explore within the pages are pretty reflective of this site in general but with less Breaking Bad. Not none, mind you, but less. There are essays discussing blindness and albinism and disability, essays about medical school, essays featuring the internet of the early 2000s, essays touching on pop culture in so many forms, essays rooted in land and place.