"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
This piece on hair describes how ideas of what is and is not fashionable, as depicted in popular media, can indelibly affect one’s self-perception and identity.
This autoethnographic account explores the complex relationship between language and identity.
"My parents drank wine with dinner every night. There’s nothing remarkable about that, but to a kid growing up in Mid-Missouri it was weird."
This autoethnography is the first-hand experience and exposure of imposter syndrome from a new adjunct instructor's point of view.
What this essay tries to capture is both the wonder and the inherent horror in potty training.
“Letter from Okinawa” describes my research and observations into the impact the U.S. military has had on the island, and tells the story of the Japanese government’s historical culpability by colonizing, controlling, and discriminating against the island.
My essay tells my life story in relation to a specific moment in the history of American women’s access to abortion and reproductive justice.
A Startling Note: "Looking for Gay Friends" in the Triangle Place narrates a gay man’s experience of sexual awakening on a university campus.
After 34 years of monogamy I entered the dating app world and began writing the first weekend I was single. This is story of my experience.
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
I documented my two-month diet in a food journal and it began as a personal effort to lose weight following a "Barthes diet".