Journal

I began blogging in 2012 after recovering from a ten-year addiction to heroin and a lifetime of degeneracy. Since then I’ve written essays, profiles, letters, rants, memoir—virtually all forms of creative nonfiction—as well as one gear review.

Mostly I write about what I’m thinking on, and that often involves estrangement, authenticity, and ideas that might be broadly considered Romantic. I’m interested in right living, or what my friends and I might call “integrity in moderation.”


 

Photos

I started shooting film in the eighth grade—1991. All photos on the website are digital scans of my film negatives.

man sleeping in wheelchair and black cat crossing his path

Bikes

During a blizzard in early 2018 I pulled a 1993 Trek 850 from a dumpster and determined to restore it. The rest is history.

Pipes

I made my first pipe from brass on a lathe in my tenth-grade shop class—for cannabis. Now I shape briar for smoking tobacco.