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Looking Forward to Someday

My oldest, Paisley, had a cold over the weekend. Saturday night she woke me up around 2 am, crying and coughing. I went in myself, which...

Remembering My Strange Inner Child

I found this video the other day. It’s one of the many videotapes that my brother saved out of my mom’s/stepdad’s garage in San Clemente,...

Revision, Nostalgia, the Kuhreihen and the Voyager Recordings

Lately, I’ve been working on revising an old essay that I wrote for my MFA thesis about nostalgia. Some revisions come fairly easy. This...

Memento Mori: What This Is and Who I Am

The following was originally posted on my blog Memento Mori I’ve had this name, “Memento Mori,” reserved for a blog for a long time, and...

“Calipatria” And the Cinematic Imperial Valley

When I checked into the Niland Inn, Leon, the owner, told me was that he was putting me in his nicest room, the same room where just a...