Personal Essay

• The Dice of Life

  1/12/2026

  Commentary, Opinion, Personal Essay, Reflective Light

  Capitalism, Dice game, Glasses, Harry Potter, Iceland, Jobs, Norway

  

• Glass of Atlas

  11/6/2025

  Flash, Personal Essay, Poetry, Reflective Light

  Architecture, Atlas, Ghost, Memories, Moon, Records, Salad, Widows

  

• The Latvian Eye Clock

  6/5/2025

  500 or Less, Confessions, Dark Dreams, Free-Range Verse, Personal Essay, Psychological

  Clocks, Fear, Financial struggle, Latvia, Peru, Quiet, Worry

  

• Head Injury and Hot Dogs

  5/31/2025

  500 or Less, Chiller, Food and Drink, Fruit, Personal Essay, Short Bites

  ER, Falling, Fruit, Grocery Store, Head injury, Health Care, Hot Dogs, Meat

  

• Sudan, Texas

  5/25/2025

  Commentary, Confessions, Creative Writing, Free-Range Verse, Personal Essay, Psychological

  Colorado, Greek islands, Hotel, Oz, Sudan, Texas, Travel

  

• The Scattering

  5/24/2025

  500 or Less, Chiller, Commentary, Confessions, Death and Life, Flash, Personal Essay, Psychological, Society, Writing

  Apartments, Arcade, Art Dreams, Cafe, Chicago

  

• Ladder Salad

  4/22/2025

  500 or Less, Confessions, Personal Essay, Society

  Impatience, Irritable, Ladder, Roses, Salad, Tomato soup

  

• Pharmacy Phrustration

  5/22/2024

  Commentary, Economic Theory, Letters, Personal Essay, Social Comm, Society, Space

  Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Customer Service, Jobs, Medication, Pharmacist, Pharmacy, Walgreens

  

• The Lake Blue Animating Principle

  2/24/2024

  Personal Essay, Sea of Sadness, Travel, Writing

  Creative Writing, Lake Michigan, Loneliness, Manitowoc, Wisconsin

  

• Central Park Heart

  6/15/2023

  Confessions, Creative Writing, Darkness, Deep Thoughts, Personal Essay

  Central Park, Chicago, Creative Writing, On The Road, Prose, Writing