A Tree, or History
A Tree or, History “Trees are just an entrée into your philosophy of self”–Casey Dyson If…
Great Pyramids
Chapter 1: Background, Exposition, Setting “Today we are going to work on the organization of our stories. I…
Conviction—Kelly Slater’s Anti-Gravity
I. I want to write something about Kelly Slater. I also want to keep writing about myself. I…
Static
I’m concerned. Genuinely concerned. Now, I don’t normally fret. I’m not a hand wringer by nature. I tend…
The Mayjah Rayjah
It is harder to conjure words about home. Home is the place known most intimately. If I write…
Chengdu, Rugby, the Internet, and Colonialism
I love to travel. Therefore, (comma) this is a love story. I’m currently living in Chengdu, China. I’m…
A Trauma that Darkness Can’t Obscure
Like the scholar Andreas Huyssen, I like to think of cities as texts to be read. That little…
Here I am – Origin as Ending
On a university campus in Chengdu, which is located in China’s Sichuan province, I walked down the sidewalk.…