Selected Writing

Welcome to  the Grotto / Brevity 
All I Really Need To Know I Learned From A Charlie Brown Christmas / The Millions
The Anti-Adventures of Gary Paulsen / The Millions
How Ramona Quimby Made Me Brave / The Millions
Mr. Kennedy Goes To Washington / Volume One
The Oracle of Eau Claire / Volume One
Bouncing Through Quarantine / Leader-Telegram
A Good Dog Knows When To Go / Leader-Telegram
Wisconsin's Been Here Before; Lets' Learn From Our Past, Then Repeat It / Volume One
Risks Can Make The Best Memories, And Other Lessons From Traveling the Oregon Trail with My Son / Washington Post
I Fathered A Robot To Remind Me How To Be A Dad / Parents Magazine
Wrong Turn at the Rite of Passage / Chippewa Valley Family
Rules of the road(trip) / Leader-Telegram
Adventures in (Robot) Baby Sitting / Leader Telegram
Stitching A Story, One Quilt At A Time / Leader Telegram
Man. vs. Winter / Leader-Telegram
Tools of The Trade / Leader-Telegram
From Eau Claire to Internment Camp / Leader-Telegram
Lessons from a Cockroach / Leader-Telegram
May the Road Rise to Meet You / Leader-Telegram
Front Row Seat To History / Leader-Telegram
Notes for a Future Father / Leader-Telegram
If Stars Could Talk / Leader-Telegram
The Time I Opened for Bon Iver: Or, Allowing Failure to Flourish / The Millions
The Resurrection of the Lord God Bird / Wisconsin Life
August Heat and the Mouse in the AC /  Wisconsin Life
Wisconsin's First Mountain Lion / Wisconsin Life
Preserving that Ol' Camp Magic / Chippewa Valley Family
Close Encounters of the Midwestern Kind / Volume One
I Can (Mostly) Do It Myself / Chippewa Valley Family
Fragments for Medgar / American Literary Review
Tracing Footsteps Not My Own / The Millions
​A Travel Guide to the City of Ghosts / Rumpus
The Genius On The Hill / The Collagist
Thomas Jefferson’s Monster / Terrain
The Ghosts of Samuel Clemens / Boulevard
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
The Hermit and the Hawk / Rumpus
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 Daughter 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
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 / 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