

#37 Too Many Moose
I took my son to Red Robin for lunch recently. A former student once referred to places like these as “breeder feeders”. Fisher and I sat...


#36 Old songs like weeds: A record report
I have a fundamental problem with Time. The breakdown is showing up everywhere, including the new record. A small, independent artist who...


#35: joy is a willing accomplice
Album #3 Update: It’s started. I have 3 nights in the studio and 11 songs scratched out. I also have a lot of thoughts about my lyrics...


#34: Everything I learned, I learned in the kindergarten bathroom.
I had an epiphany in September while sitting on the toilet in the kindergarten bathroom at work. I didn’t have to go to the bathroom. I...


#33: Flotsam on Her 44th Birthday
Today is my birthday. I’m 44, which is pretty exciting. It’s divisible by 11 which only happens once every… well…11 years. Turning 44 is...


#32: The queen turns 1. (Also: snowfields, jellyfish, and songwriting)
Apparently, yesterday was the 1-year anniversary of the release of Queen of Everything. I did not remember this – not until logging into...

#31 Iceland Part 5: Dangling from the monkey's swing
It’s been 3 months since my Iceland trip. It’s time to let go. I left Hólmavík and the whales completely blissed out. I’d managed to nab...


#30 Iceland Part 4: My heart overboard (Whale Watching)
Follow these links to read: PART 1 -- PART 2 -- and PART 3. I slept and woke and slept and woke and slept and woke in a cold Kia Soul on...


#29 Iceland Part 3: Sleeping in the Passenger Seat of my Soul.
A delayed Iceland Part 3. Read here for Part 2 and here for Part 1. The unsorted logistics of anything make me want to throw up, so my...


#28 Iceland Part 2: The Kind of French Angels and the Reindeer Boys
Here is a delayed Part 2 to my Iceland trip. For Part 1, read here. I’m back to work (in schools), my son has started kindergarten, I...