June 2024: Alone with a Pirate on Mendicor
The iPhone 15 Pro camera is pretty decent. This year has proven to be more fortuitous than I expected. In January, Hobart published a short story of mine,...
2023 in review
My desk circa last winter. Some housekeeping: Please consider donating e-sims to people in Gaza, so that those on the frontlines of the genocide in Palestine...
July, albeit late
Dandelions at Hollywood Cemetery, July 2023 x E
June: Give Yourself a Gift
In making an effort to think and speak less negatively about myself, I'm using my June newsletter (which is now late, I know) as an opportunity to look back...
May: Failure, Fear, and Fortitude
Here's me in a "crick" near Fluvanna, VA in April A few brief updates and some links: I recently had an image published in Vogue Business. Lucy Maguire...
January: Love What You Love
Arthur Ashe Boulevard highway exit, 2017 Hello and happy new year, if we haven't spoken since 2022. I, for one, would like a medal for writing a newsletter...
December: Uncertainty; January: Uncertainty
Part I from 12/28/2022: June 2022, Silver Spring, MD Housekeeping: this letter comes to you from the tail-end of 2022. I am on an Amtrak train between...
September and October, from November: Presence
They say moving is very tough. It is.
August: "Despair"
(Written between 8/19/2022 - 8/23/2022. Photographs from August - October, 2013.) Manhattan, August 2013 Before I moved to New York for college in August of...
July (belatedly, from my J train notebook pages)
I don't owe anyone an explanation, but here is where my newsletter-type thoughts have been for the last six weeks: (unedited transcript below) July being the...
June: "go where the light is"
An iPhone picture of my aunt's yard on June 17th 2022; film scans to come soon. Some housekeeping: I'm in a critique group that has put out a wonderful...
May: "Gang Aft Agley"
"The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!" from To a Mouse by Robert Burns I have been...
February: What Can You Give Yourself?
Central Park, February 2022 "One does not lose the ability to enjoy pleasure when it does not come around often, or when it is something one has given up...
October: What it Means to Try
It's been a good ten months since my last newsletter, a long-form essay about 2020 and the books I read over the course of the year. Unless I put down all of...