Breathe
All in for Soloist + Breathe, a collaboration with Matt Smiley, on his album The Avant Garde: The Avant…
Till Death…Or We Part
The magazine pitch: Always the bridesmaid. The gist:“All your friends are getting married. Talk about weddings from your perspective…like…
The Evolution of Camping
For many of us, our lives play out in cities, inside buildings of conditioned and forced air, and in…
Seeking the Amorist
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Trey Owens
Trey Owens came into my life as he did so many others: a chance encounter followed by a run-in…
A Retrospective of Music Culture in Billings, Montana
As I drop down Interstate 90 into the river valley that holds the “Magic City,” I swear: I won’t…
Quitting
A piece I wrote while quitting smoking. Read at Montana Slam, February 2012. I’ve been smoking for 15 years. I’ve quit…
The passing loss of lonely
There seems to be no ice cream as sweet, no cocktail as strong, no Mexican wrestling-themed restaurant as kitschy…
For the love of pets
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Cursive scrolls through the West
This spring has already found me traveling from the mayhem that was the Sasquatch music festival in Washington to…