activism… This Unhappy Consciousness 4 Aug 2023 Recently, I was the recipient of a "40 Under 40" award in my community. 40 Under 40 is a feature of many mid-size cities across the United States, and is…
Memoir Brokedick: A Memoir Excerpt 16 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 I joined the United States Army in June 2007. With the encouragement of my recruiters, I lied about my pre-existing health conditions. When those conditions became known at Basic Combat…
Music On Hardcore & Fayetteville 22 May 2023 Saturday night, I attended a hardcore punk/death metal show at Rowan skatepark. Roughly fifty people gathered in the Daville skate shop to see four bands play. This kind of thing…
Uncategorized A More Open Door 1 Mar 20231 Mar 2023 In January, I presented “A More Open Door: Teaching & Advising Undocumented Students” to faculty and staff at my college. The focus of my presentation was to highlight the unique…
Uncategorized Fayetteville Tech in Context: Updated 17 Aug 202217 Aug 2022 One of my first major academic labors in my career at FTCC, the presentation has now been updated to reflect 2020 census data and other changes. The updated version can…
Uncategorized Time after Time: Overlay Photography 24 Jul 20211 Mar 2023 A gallery of past on present Fayetteville, North Carolina. Project begun summer 2018 and will continue to be updated. Winslow Street looking north toward the Amtrak Station, 1942 and 2018.…
Uncategorized Learning to Kill: Rosemary Daniell’s poem “Fort Bragg” and the murder of Vanessa Guillen 13 Jul 2021 While some of Rosemary Daniell’s 1988 book Fort Bragg and Other Points South is written in a haze of sensuality and playful lust, the poem “Fort Bragg” prefigures the environment…
Uncategorized The Accident: Flash Fiction 12 Dec 202024 Jul 2021 They stayed in the house. Columns of brick at intervals keeping it off the ground. They stayed in the house. Elijah didn’t need to see it to know it was…
Uncategorized Burden 17 Nov 202012 May 2024 Last year I completed the first draft, a very rough first draft, of a stageplay. I have no real intention of seeing it produced, much less sending it out for…
Memoir… Net 10 Sep 20208 Apr 2025 In adolescence, I was fortunate enough to live on a small barrier island off the Cape Fear coast. During the summers, I spent hours mastering the use of a casting…
An Unhappy Consciousness 