The Mandalorian’s Trail of Destruction
**All Star Wars is good Star Wars and I’ve enjoyed seasons 1-2 of The Mandalorian (I even co-host a podcast about it!). That being said, I wish the creatives and Read More …
Category: Creative Writing
Ways life at sea has prepared me for COVID-19 isolation – and some ways it hasn’t
This is now a post on Scientific American’s opinions page. Check it out here! Quick background: I work on research vessels leaving out of ports around the world. The header Read More …
Learning by Doing: Robert Dove run his weekly jazz jam like a classroom
** This post was written as an assignment for my Digital Journalism class through UCSD Extension. The musicians anticipate the countdown, hands twitching above their respective instruments. Robert Dove yells Read More …
What We Inherit
I wrote this for a VAMP workshop; the theme was “inheritance.” It wasn’t selected, but I was honestly ok with that. I didn’t have the time or energy to devote Read More …
I am 35
Something I wrote after a session of my creative fiction writing class, after reading and discussing “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros I am 35 years old. But what that means Read More …
At the corner of Alleghany and Eheart
Perhaps childhood should span all the years until we become teenagers, but when I refer to mine I am just talking about the four years of sheer innocence and oblivious Read More …
My Happy Place
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of Read More …
poetry at sea
My Sunset Wisps of clouds trailing in every direction as if gusts of wind fancied themselves artists and my sky their canvas The usual colors interrupted by the green you Read More …
Inspiration
I have been delving back into my love of writing recently, noticeable mainly through sudden bursts of inspiration at seemingly random moments. Here is the result of one such moment. Read More …