Confessions of a Recovering Roadrageaholic
Reading Time: 5 minutes. I used to believe the left lane was sacred ground. Not “suggested.”Not “when convenient.”Sacred. I was the self-appointed king of the freeway, the unhinged knight of…
Stories
The Heavy Metal Cowboy
Reading Time: 16 minutes. Fence Lines and False Prophets The old cowboys gathered along the fence every morning like it was church and none of them had ever missed a…
Keep that Flame
Reading Time: 3 minutes. The man appeared on a Tuesday. Not in a puff of smoke or crack of thunder—just appeared—standing bewildered in the middle of a suburban intersection in…
Best of Me
Reading Time: < 1 minute. No fanfare plays, no banners fly,Just quiet fire behind my eye.A dawn like any other day—But something’s shifted, come what may. No louder voice, no…
Don’t Ever Do Spec Work, Kitties
Reading Time: 5 minutes. Fresh out of design school, Ezra was eager, talented, and—most dangerously—trusting. He saw freelance work as a golden ticket, a way to craft a name for…
Late January Sun Reflection
Reading Time: 4 minutes. I don’t like the late January sun in Minnesota. Shocking, I know. Who wouldn’t love being blinded by a low-hanging death star while the snow mocks…
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Reading Time: 3 minutes. You may want to put this song on while reading this post—it’ll help set the mood: When I was in elementary school back in the Dakotas—and…
Why I’m Retiring from the Fast Food Kitchen
Reading Time: 4 minutes. Picture this: last night, I became a volunteer fast food worker at an event…an order-fetcher, and all-around chaos coordinator in a kitchen making fried foods and…
Bro, Stop flexing so much
Reading Time: 10 minutes. Ethan had always been the skinny guy. The kind of guy girls saw and thought, “Aw, he’s sweet.” Sweet, of course, being code for “invisible.” He…