Selected Writing

The Loneliness of Oppenheimer / Boulevard
Of Mice and Men / Volume One
Heroics On (and Off) the Tundra / Volume One
The Road Less Traveled --For a Reason / Volume One
Fragments for Medgar / American Literary Review
Never Mind Mack Charles Parker / DIAGRAM
In Defense of the Video Store / Volume One
Ray Bradbury's Keys to the Universe / The Millions
Bus Ride / Wisconsin People and Ideas
Settling for Eagles /  Volume One
Picture This / Sky Island Journal
A Father's Twist on Faith / Brain, Child
Happiness in a Hammock? /  Brain, Child
On Car Seats and Crisis / Brain, Child
Don't Talk to Strangers...Well, Sometimes Talk To Strangers / Brain, Child
Spotted / The Collagist
Giving Our Children Experiences / Brain, Child
It's Cool to be Strange / Brevity
Letter to My Two-Year-Old Daighter In The Aftermath of the Election / Huffington Post
The Year of the Great Forgetting / Huffington Post
Counting Down the Dog Years/ Univ. of Nebraska Press Blog
Lessons Learned From Losing Our Pets / Huffington Post
Unsolved Histories #10: Books Uncovered, Records Spun, and a Resurrection Gone Awry / Michigan Quarterly Review
Unsolved Histories #9: A Bird Lost, A Sketch Found, and a Dream to Bring It Back / Michigan Quarterly Review
Unsolved Histories #8: Santa Claus, Childlike Wonder, & Reindeer Poop on the Roof / Michigan Quarterly Review
Unsolved Histories #7: A Postcard, A Package, and the Pieces of a Family Unearthed / Michigan Quarterly Review
Unsolved Histories #6: A Camper Lost, A Counselor Found and the Legend That Wouldn't Die / Michigan Quarterly Review
Unsolved Histories #5: A Giant Turtle, A Stubborn Man, and Dredging Up A Myth / Michigan Quarterly Review
The Resurrection of the Lord God Bird / Wisconsin People & Ideas
Unsolved Histories #4: A U.F.O., A Crop Circle, and a Message not Yet Received / Michigan Quarterly Review
What Made A Wisconsin Naturalist Want To Disappear? / Volume One
Unsolved Histories #3: A Cave, A Poet, and Excavating the Truth / Michigan Quarterly Review
Unsolved Histories #2: A Haunted Inn, A Hallowed Ground, and the Ghost of Robert Frost / Michigan Quarterly Review
Unsolved Histories #1: Miracles, Meteorological Phenomenons, and Writing the Unknown / Michigan Quarterly Review
Hirofukushima / Passages North
Finding Fannie / Volume One
Punchline / Brevity
In the Heart of the Heart of Duluth / North American Review
A Dispatch on the Writing of Dispatches From the Drownings / North American Review
A Tribute to the Passenger Pigeon / WPR-Wisconsin Life
Monitored / NPR-Kansas City
The Changing / Adroit Journal
In Defense of Sasquatch / Ninth Letter & WordPlaySo
Ungumming the Keys / The Rumpus
Fabricating Fear / The Rumpus
Live Forever / The Rumpus
The Girl in the Surf / Creative Nonfiction
Goodbye, Tuscaloosa / TriQuarterly
Fifty Ways of Looking at Tornadoes / Quarterly West
This Is A Test of the Emergency Alert System / The Offending Adam
To The Owl In The Tree Outside Our Hospital Window / DIAGRAM
On The Occurrence of March 20, 1981 and on the Occurrences of Every Night After / Brevity
The Shadow Room / Black Warrior Review
The Longest Wait / Devil's Lake
The Dead Clown's Knot / Bending Genre
Buckethead / Ascent

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