My social media instagram is comprised of rolleiflex photo essays, here is an outline for an essay of five with images of my self that are centered around the main themes of my memoir- Meeting my father, my cancer diagnosis…
Vietnamerica: Dougs Basement Comic Book Collection/ Geography and Architecture in the Graphic Novel
Vietnamerica: Doug’s Basement Comic Book Collection/ Geography and Architecture in the Graphic Novel I grew up in a suburb of Denver called Park Hill. I also grew up in Jefferson County a forty minute drive west of Denver, a run…
Proem, Spoken Before a Life Sentence
Proem, Spoken Before a Life Sentence “My aunt said never a word, but… walked out, and never came back. She vanished like a discontented fairy; or like one of those supernatural beings, whom it was popularly supposed I was entitled…
Go Ahead in The Rain: A few prompts from thousands of miles up in the sky
Go Ahead in The Rain a Tribe Called Quest, I never listened to music growing up, not really. I remember sitting in the hot car, Rocky Mountain heat, with my uncle who was a self-proclaimed DJ for BBQ’s, baptisms and…
Experiments with Footnotes, B. Vicars
Below are three experimentations with footnotes. The first (1st) is from a memoir entitled HTAAH: How to: 22nd Century Woman I ran away to Milford Pennsylvania with a notebook that I filled last fall. From August until December I wrote…
When Passion and Place Collide; Bring back the Phone Book
LA the endless party, New York the sleepless night, Lili Anolik’s Northern Star: Place and Passion Collide in Hollywood’s Eve “I loved her so much and I wanted to meet her,” or so said Lili Anolik of her subject Eve…
