I know, I know. It’s been a LONG while since I last published anything here. I could blame it on grad school, but I stopped adding things to this blog before I dove deep into research, essays, and WAY too much coffee. I could make excuses, but in the end, it comes down to too …
May 17th, 2021 I tried bison for the first time today. It was “sous vide bison with black morel crust, fiddleheads, asparagus, fennel, radish, anise, jus, and sage oil” according to the chef. Duck fat was also involved somehow? He says it makes it better? I don’t friggin’ know guys, until I met this chef …
Foodlogue from a Foodie In-Training: Bison Playing the Fiddle Read More »
“No, not that one, that one!” Standing in your local pet store you command a teenager, who works there for part-time minimum wage and is armed with a small green net towards one specific goldfish with your finger because you like the look of her long, flowy tail. You’re standing on the sterile white tiles …
Moving to a Bigger Pond: One Poet’s Swim Ever Onward Read More »
Prose, poetry, and experimental writing are not simply genres or writing, but feel like entirely different mediums and constructs. While you may go about writing a space opera differently from a harlequin romance, just as you use different aspects of poetry depending on if you’re writing lyrical poetry or spoken word, they all hold the …
Hopping Genres: My Personal Experiences Writing Prose, Poetry, and Experimental Writing Read More »
Imagine this: you’ve walked 15 km over multiple hours with a pack that is at least 50 pounds, you took the time to scan your site, pick the perfect place to pitch your tent or hammock, got some lake water boiling, freshened up, and finally, you excitedly pull out your notebook, set your only pencil …
I am still pretty young (not 30 yet) and if I’ve been camping and hiking a majority of my life, my parents have at least a decade’s more experience on me, so here’s a few tips from them, separated mainly into six categories: packing, sleeping, eating, drinking, clothing, and playing Packing Be good at playing …
An earlier draft of this was called “I’m Neither a Survivalist or a Creative Writing Professor,” and that still applies. Like with anything else, I’ll ask you to defer to experts for expert opinions while sharing my own personal experiences within nature and writing. I will tell you that I have been visiting drive-in campgrounds …
Ah geez, how the heck am I supposed to introduce myself here? What am I supposed to say? I like long walks on the beach? I like my coffee black? My ongoing existential crisis is slowly crushing me into a paste? Who knows? For all my writing prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction, perhaps the …