Journal / Journalism

I began blogging in 2012 after recovering from a ten-year addiction to cocaine and heroin. Since then I’ve written essays, profiles, letters, rants, memoir—virtually all forms of creative nonfiction—as well as one gear review.

Writing became a vehicle for exploring inner and outer worlds, and medium for representing both. While I recorded my own thoughts, I also tried to illuminate the lives of others through small sketches and longform profiles.

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Feature Writing

Inside Heroin Addiction and Homelessness in Salt Lake City

At ten dollars a pop, a balloon—or “B” for short—carries one-tenth of a gram of your favored drug. Once sold in tiny water balloons—hence the name—ten-spots now come packaged in a small patch of garbage bag that has been folded over, twisted like a loaf of bread, tied off, and double layered. To keep things orderly, heroin comes in black plastic, cocaine in white plastic.