Mar 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
The air was so cold that it felt like my lungs would crack when I breathed. We were rushing from the car into the street. Four white-trash, teenage punks on a Friday night rampage. Out onto the icy blacktop of our Central Minnesotan wasteland. Into the freedom of...
Feb 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
There are two times in my life when I had the honor and privilege to be compared to heroic, cinematic characters played by Harrison Ford. The first time was when I was dancing under the moonlight with a family of Turks at a party of belly dancers on a veranda...
Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
On my final day living in the Czech Highlands, yellow light from the train station hovered over the snow falling on the tracks. It was a cold December night, and my friends had kept me out drinking until the last train left Havlíčkův Brod at midnight. I found a car...
Jan 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
The best creations come from the swirling dance between our personal stories and our mythological fantasies. We’re all Dorothy in Oz, Frodo going to Mordor, and Luke Skywalker facing his father in the books we write, the movies we make, and everything we...
Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Numbed and on edge after surviving the drive through a night of torrential rain, with lightning piercing through the dark like a strobe light in a throbbing dance club, Jarette had arrived in Middlegate, Nevada. A speck in the center of nowhere. My mind feels like...
