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.