memoir

  • Big Sur 

    Big Sur 

    An essay I wrote about a road trip I took in 2022. I was laid off from what my friends lovingly and I hatefully called “my fake email job” on January 14th, 2022. At first, as cajoled by all of my friends, I tried to rest. I turned off the alarm on my phone, drank

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  • Past Tense

    Past Tense

    An essay I wrote shortly after starting grad school at the University of Chicago My roommate puts up with the fact that I’m up early and gone early most mornings, gone before I even remember why I’m running out the door, coffee still on my breath and teeth  This is what it all must have

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  • makin’ dirt

    makin’ dirt

    An essay about compost, and moving back to Missoula. I’m lurching around Missoula’s University District on a big blue e-bike, towing a trailer of trash cans full of food scraps and anxiously waving at the traffic that lets me through, one of the small niceties people can grant you that you don’t realize goes so

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