Ethology is a highly fictionalized ethnographic account of my travels around Tanzania, East Africa during my teens.
In the autoethnographic "Spinach Lasagna", the narrator joins a family of southern Italians and learns that grieving is cultural.
The Ultimate Wave: Prose Poetry of the Pandemic and Parents Author’s Memo “The Wave” examines the problem of pleasure and...
Through all of the things that separate us, there is one universal experience that transcends all barriers: love.
"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."
Narrating Estrangement is written by those who have decided to distance themselves from, or have been driven out by, their families.
In this 2nd of my Processing Parental Grief series, Calliandra receives a letter from her mother weeks after her death.
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
is an essay about the way technology can intrude and obscure what may be our most important human experiences
In Saying Goodbye: A Father's Last Minute Parting Gift to His Son, I channel the moments I remember from the night before my mother died.
This piece situates me in a set of sour in-laws relationships that also involved the legal system and it is in the form of autoethnography.
It recounts vignettes of my’s dad’s life, his final week, the deep bond with family and friends and the ease with which he let go of life.
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