Essays

Cape Lookout - An Essay

According to Oregon State Park Rangers, you need to do the following if you see a cougar in the wild: Freeze.

1. Remain calm.

2. Maintain eye contact.

3. Appear large: bulk out your clothing, raise your hands.

4. Fight back if attacked.

5. Make noise.

6. Keep children close.

7. Avoid hiking alone.

There is No There: Revisiting Nameless Streets on Memory Lane

It might have something to do with living in a country far away from where I grew up, knowing that my hometown is changing in ways I don’t understand, and being homesick a lot, but I think about the theme of this compilation constantly. It has become a screensaver that always seems to crop up at 3am when I can’t sleep or feel restless.

The Electric Kool-Aid Liver Cleanse

The closest I’ve come to doing psychedelics with my parents was a two-day liver cleanse at their house in St. Francis Bay.