Apr
05
Mother's Aviary: A Birthday Memorial
I recall that my mother was lovely, even in the closing days of her life, as she sat in her
3 min read
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Mar
29
Nighttime Landscapes: A Memory of Iridescent Green
First Published in the Adelaide Literary Magazine Awards Anthology of 2018
The porch was elegant and functional. It extended from
3 min read
Mar
25
Create Beautiful Layouts
Perhaps you need to convey technical information to a lay audience, which is often daunting, or inspire colleagues to learn
2 min read
Mar
23
Jazz Pianist Hampton Hawes: Remembering a Relative
Originally Published in All About Jazz, 2020
He was my maternal grandmother’s nephew, the thin, handsome relation who grew
4 min read
Mar
16
Urban Park Culture: Celebrating the City Park Environment
The magazine is currently on hiatus, but you can enjoy the premiere issue here:
https://online.anyflip.com/jwsef/upjt/
Mar
10
Illness and the Movement of Time: Reflections on Architecture, Music, and the Benefits of Raw Honey (2018)
The movement of time becomes painfully apparent when one is ill, either droning on during treatment and recovery, or fleeting
8 min read
Mar
10
Hawks of the Afternoon: On the Beauty and Fear of Isolation
It’s early afternoon on a weekday, during a lull in my patrol of municipal land. The tires of my
2 min read
Mar
10
Library Digressions: Curating the Chaos
Is it a library or simply a collection of books stacked for convenience in various parts of the house, frightening
6 min read
Mar
10
Alone in a Silent Grove
Breath
of the muted voice, becoming quiet along the way, one
soft stream of air made softer still, by the
1 min read
Mar
10
An Older Volume
Closed,
and older still in memory
than forgotten ideas and other points of departure, a book
waits behind the centuries,
1 min read