Essays

Action figure in dryer.

Nothing exists in isolation. These essays consider how personal experience is shaped by broader cultural and political forces.


Now That I Grow a Beard

On What It Is to Grow Up

Action hero on bedside table.

What does it mean to grow up when the past feels louder than the future?


A Fin Breaching

On Second, Third, & Fourth Chances

View from Tunnel Bluffs, British Columbia.

Failure, self-blame, and the possibility that wonder might return.

Content warning: themes of sexual assault.


Joy is an Art to be Practiced

On Cultivating a More Generous Perspective

Action hero with antidepressants.

Joy is complex. It resists narrow ideas of success, productivity, and efficiency.


A Different Kind of Wanting

On the Desire of Desire

Roses in front of faded fence.

Desire is handed down through culture.