
A Collection of Personal Writing, Photography, and Things I Like





How to Use Commas
As a writer and editor, I've seen many confused acts of punctuation. Without question, the comma holds the title for the most commonly misused mark.








About My Becoming a Writer
I can trace my path to working with words back to a box of crayons. The 64-count Crayola box with a sharpener in the back.







Cold Start
This platform is old and wooden planks, streaked in yellow paint and sprinkled in piles of salt. We wait. We sniffle. We breathe steam into the dry and jagged morning air.