Personal Essays
I starting writing, with regularity, what could be considered personal essays, at the end of 2013, when I began contributing the “back page column” to a monthly arts and entertainment publication, SouthernMinn Scene. A continuation of that column appeared on the similarly minded website, The Next Ten Words, from 2017 until 2018. Other non-music writing of a personal, reflective nature has been featured in issues of River Valley Woman and in The Wagazine.
Regularly written personal essays have been extremely few and far between in the last five years, but this space will offer a home to newly written pieces, as well as reviving things that had been previously published elsewhere.
Closer to Fine
Friendship. The Minnesota State Fair. The Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge. Chronic Passive Suicidal Ideation.
From The Archives: I Was An Extra In A Hallmark Holiday Film
Originally published in the SouthernMinn Scene magazine in early 2016, these two archival, holiday adjacent pieces, are reflections on when a Hallmark holiday romantic comedy was filmed in Northfield, Minn.
From The Archives: Fathering (or, There’s A Monster at The End of This Essay)
Originally written and published in 2017 on The Next Ten Words, a short, personal essay reflecting on, amongst other things, the idea of fathers.
An Irresponsible Journalist
Reflecting on the tenth anniversary of a few weeks spent in hell with a right wing extremist conspiracy theorist.
From The Archives: We Used To Vacation
Originally written and published in 2017, a vacation to the Pacific Northwest through the lens of an anxious and depressed person.
From The Archives: Starship 2000
Originally written and published in September 2018, a short, snarky exploration of Northfield, Minnesota’s annual Defeat of Jesse James Days festival.