Sometimes I Write Stories and Have Ideas

I’m jamming with the new Bon Iver record of late, SABLE, fABLE. Justin Vernon’s lyricism is unmatched, in my opinion, and on this record he addresses some ideas that are very central to his musicianship. Namely, the constant return to the pain of loss and sadness that first propelled him into the spotlight with his […]

In a small town near the Dunes, a local restaurant sits proudly across from a parking lot for a grocery chain, proclaiming itself. “PANCAKE HOUSE” its sign reads. It is listed as Campus Cafe, and it is true that a university is only a couple blocks away, but you’ll find no students here. When I […]

When I’m out hunting for photos, sometimes it can feel like a real drag. Going to places other people have been, to capture stuff other people have seen, to post online where a hundred versions of the same photo is a garbage experience. So, to combat this, I have to wait for a moment to […]

Waterfalls are hard to photograph. You can’t really capture the sounds, the smells, the lingering dampness that stretches a half mile from the fall itself. It’s a gut-deep experience. Things like that just defy any attempt to fully summarize their experience in imagery or text. This waterfall in southern Oregon or Washington (I can’t remember) […]

a spear erupts from the lapping waves, the outlook grim and dark the fisherman scowls, the rain pours down, but in his eyes, a spark the day not done, a battle not won, the work is yet to cease but in the depths a monster waits for final breath’s release into the wind the hero […]