Now on McSweeneys: As A Superhero Teacher, I Can’t Wait to Sacrifice My Unvaccinated Life for Your Child

Achievement unlocked! I can’t begin to explain how STOKED I was when I got the email from McSweeneys Internet Tendency that they were going to run my latest satire piece about teachers and vaccines. Getting published on McSweeneys has been a dream of mine. Some writers spend YEARS trying to get published there. Book deals […]

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Love & other hard things

One out of seven jobless, Venezuela size statistics, but the Tongass is alive, listen—   the wilderness so thick, I could lean into this. No helicopters to spoil, and there’s a part of me   that likes to do hard things— like fool myself into jumping off this cliff sixty feet   into the drink, […]

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“Little tornadoes” & “Leftovers”: two Thanksgiving poems

Little Tornadoes Inside lives a cyclone  that can throw him to the floor.  A punch to the arm  he craves, a battle in his ears to slay the storm within.  Give him a cinnamon stick, ginger beer,  whiskey cranberry sauce, a lemon — anything  to burn the fireworks  in his mouth. I don’t know where […]

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Traveling with Fairy

Because she is of the wilderness, why shouldn’t the rhythm of a thousand hustling feet induce her to run through TSA? Because when riding an escalator, why shouldn’t she wait for the prettiest step, although it may mean losing Mommy who has alteady gone ahead and landing spread eagle upside down between five metal moving […]

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