essays, journal entries, memories, pieces, images, and so on from my early years working on farms.
My editor says, "New themes surface and recede throughout the manuscript – faith, labor, the body, the distance between the city and the country, and the search for meaning and attachment."
Others have said, "What if Wendell Berry met the devil and lived, and also he operated a Twitter account?"
My short story "Cheap Thrills," about orange juice concentrate, your grandmother, walking down the street, and how I'd like to be your friend again in heaven, was illustrated and published by GoldenHour press in 2021.
In the summer of 2020, I was selected as a Nature in Words Fellow at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute in Hastings, MI, where I had worked in the stewardship department the year before killing bad things and planting good things. My collection of 10 linked stories were based on the preserve and surrounding areas, asking the famous question: "What's going on in Barry County?". Ten maps I made with data collected at the institute tied together my investigation of the concept of place as it took shape in southeast Michigan. As a final step in my fellowship, I coordinated design and publication of a small print run for sale in the gift shop. I might still have a copy or two somewhere myself if you send me an email.