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On the Hill
Cool prairie wind blows strands of hair across my brow. We are surrounded by people. Some I know and some I don’t. Their wet eyes are on us. Across the field is the…
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Secret Paintings
The first thing you saw when you walked into the art room was a life sized papier-mâché Buddy Holly. The walls were a sprawling quilt of patchwork murals of animals, skulls, or cars,…
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“You Could Make That Cheaper” and Other Crafting Lies
When you walk around on this Earth as a person who makes things, there will inevitably come a time when someone in your life who doesn’t make things, will turn to you as…
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Message in a Bottle
“Grandpa what’s that?” A tiny blonde girl pointed to a bottle half sticking out of the sand. The old man stooped over to pick it up, his spine and knees popping as he…
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How I’m Curating My Life
On how I'm curating my life to avoid wasting time on websites that distract me from my goals.
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Secrets Worth Keeping
Jake could see them from his bedroom window. He watched them leave in the cover of darkness from the abandoned house across the street, panicked and crying. And then the murders began. It…