"She needs to be an artist to be an artist-teacher in adult community learning. She needs to do both to become the best she can be."
On Emerging Liberated of the Glass Box Author’s Memo Like many others in the American South, I began my teens...
The Resistant Analysand: A Memoir Author’s Memo My memoir is about my growing up as the daughter of a Freudian...
"Horse, Therapy is a story of my own experience and is a commentary on trauma, both in animals and humans."
"Barriers melt like grilled cheese at the table when you're dancing for your supper like the old vaudevillians."
"From dancing at New York’s Metropolitan Opera to the Cow Palace in San Francisco, every venue taught me valuable lessons."
"The Christening Gown' is an autoethnographic exploration of the significance of a family heirloom for an Irish Catholic family in the USA."
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.
A Startling Note: "Looking for Gay Friends" in the Triangle Place narrates a gay man’s experience of sexual awakening on a university campus.
This work is part of a larger ethnography of scars, one that addresses the intersection medicine, religion, and body politics in (among other places) Nebraska.
"When I return to Sam’s place with the cheesecloth, I smell our “soup” pot. Shit. I envision the blotter headline: ECU Professor busted for marijuana. What a way to make my graduate mentors proud and to show success at this professor business."
"Sookie was never meant to be my support dog. The subject of this autoethnographic literary nonfiction, I rescued her when I was 17 years old and it was by far the best decision I have ever made."