Aether and Ego is available for pre-order!
Socials & such.
Came home from an afternoon at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic to find that Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal’s Issue 15 just came out with my haiku.
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Excited to see three of my erasures at manywor(l)ds today!
As you might expect, a recipe for banana almond muffins.
Excited to see my haiku “finding the prank googly eyes” show up at Haikuniverse today!
An incomplete list of some books I recommend.
Books completed in 2025.
My poem “Signal Flares” just appeared in Blue Unicorn.
This is bread like banana bread is bread. I stole the recipe from this viral video, but we didn’t have any oranges so I used
I saw crabapples at Dave’s Fruit & Veg today, and not having had any since I came home, grabbed a box. They’re smaller than usual