Entries filed under the Creative Writing category are pieces that are less reportage and more essayistic pieces I’ve composed. Though varied in their subject matter, each of them is a deeper exploration that many of the pieces I produce from my travels or as a way to explore literary design encounters. There is a building variety of them featured below, such as an exploration of New Journalism through the lens of one May Day when I was having a mani/pedi in New York City while the throngs of marching workers passed by the salon.

Another found me in a spot on a high bald in the Appalachians feeling the grief of nature’s decline while feeling the beauty of her surroundings. I explore my fascination with Django Reinhardt in “Hail Django, Gypsy of Jazz,” and I share my response to one of the most syncopated beach masses I’ve ever celebrated! I feel echoes back in time when combing through Edith Wharton’s papers at Yale, and I record my feelings about an experience I had on the Sioux reservations in South Dakota. I hope you enjoy these pieces, as they are closest to my heart!