I'm frequently behind, I'm desperately trying to make up for lost time. Last year I tried to pump some blood into the system with some help from poet journalist Libby Leonard and my old stomping grounds SLUG Magazine. The sounds of Slowdive hung around the coffee shop las I sipped my sweetened chai. The world was still spinning.

 

 

 

Jill Hazard Rowe reached out in late 2020 and asked if I would be willing to appear on her podcast Human Stories. I wasn't about to turn a Mama Dragon down.

One of the things my mom frequently talked about over the years was me finishing The Unexpected Son so I could appear on RadioWest with Doug Fabrizio to talk about my father. 

Well, somehow it happened. 

RadioWest Films has put together a short film featuring some of my favorite photographs and some audio excerpts we did for an upcoming radio show.

When I think of us, this is what I see. The places we’ve been. The places we’re going. This is the closest we came to being pretty. 

Richard Ostler reached out to me after reading Peggy Fletcher Stack's feature on The Unexpected Son in The Salt Lake Tribune. I've done numerous po...

Reading Peggy Fletcher Stack's article was something like unwrapping a present. I really didn't know what I'd find inside. Stack interviewed my mot...

The Unexpected Son was written over the course of 15 or so years. There were four phases that produced three distinct versions of the book. The first version was a collection of interviews and journal entries. It was unimaginative and clinical and proved to be little more than a framework for what would come later.  

During that period, I started to curate a selection of songs that reflected the mood of my writing and served as guide when I struggled to find my way.  

These ten songs were the most frequently visited during the bulk of the writing.