My pipemaking is informed by a few principles, which I have arrived at after dabbling in the craft over the past few years.

While lying in bed in late March of 2020 I had the idea to buy Tesla stock.

The other day I drove over to the bank and closed my one and only credit account. I was inspired by Daniel Suelo.

Michael Pollan’s contribution to the psychedelic renaissance reinforces the very power structures that the countercultural psychonauts opposed.

A life unfolds in weeks, days, seconds, even infinitesimal moments. But it's made sense of and recalled in chapters. And chapters span years.

What is gained when you miss the shot, what is lost when you get it?

I presented the following speech at UVU's My Word!, a ceremony that celebrates student art and writing as published in the English department's journals.

This essay is for anyone in recovery who senses that sometimes it's the people who want the best for us that hold us down.

The first rule is to know that you will die and, barring a house fire, your photos will not.

Free from delirium, I am full of delusions. Or am I? Where am I?

There's a popular story going 'round that sounds something like this: excellence is achieved by doing one thing well.

People have been teasing cats with cucumbers. According to some, if you laughed at these felines’ expense, you’re wrongheaded. And if you went so far as to sic a cucumber on your cat, just to see what would happen, you might even be sociopathic.

I want you to want me, yet I want to not give a fuck.

It's not our darkness that haunts us; it's the barrier we set against it.