How much did you enjoy creating and delivering your last marketing campaign? While you may have loved its results, the process itself was likely less than delightful. Epic email chains of edits and approvals, learning and unlearning multiple digital tools, negotiating with printing and shipping companies—sometimes getting a simple message in front of the right…
Gardener
Gardener Shot with Canon Rebel T3i. May 2017.
The Greatest Challenges Facing Nonprofit Marketing (Content Writing)
Quick—name a nonprofit. Name three. Which organizations sprang to mind first? If you’re like most people, the names on the tip of your tongue were of major national or international institutions. The majority of nonprofit marketing we see comes from larger organizations, which is part of the reason these brands remain at the forefront of…
Smoking Jacket
Colored pencil, ink and marker on paper 2011.
Watching Episodes of ‘I Shouldn’t Be Alive’ in Reverse
We like tears sucked into ducts, the way waterfalls look running upwards. Viewed in reverse the sea ejaculates helicopters and lightning. Bears appear with limbs in loose jaws, healing hikers and tidying campsites. A ribcage coughs up buckshot. The mountain inhales its shelf of snow. We like the hour condensed, flares asleep in their nests,…
Digital Asset Management for Franchises: The Secret to Success (Content Writing)
As many as 312,000 franchise locations in the U.S. alone might not celebrate their 1st birthday. Why do so many eager and dedicated franchisees fail?
Lackluster Apocalypse
Someone put their fist through the radio and all weekend it played only Creed. I tried to shrug it off, drove reckless through the stars and woke up blanketed in parking tickets. The Bible in my hotel bathtub was stuffed with subscription cards. My high school enemies kept inviting me to the seafood buffet and…
Is the Art of Business Etiquette Dead? (Content Writing)
Has an email ever rubbed you the wrong way? Have you ever listened to your conference line’s tinny muzak for over 10 minutes waiting for your forever-tardy team to buzz in? Why does this keep happening, you ask? Is business etiquette a thing of the past?
Tahwaan’s Revenge
Charcoal and chalk on paper 2012.
Wake
for John Chir The last woman at your empty grave is grounding rosaries into the wind, is stitching a history onto rice paper leaves, is repeating your name and repeating your name, is waiting for an echo. The last woman at your empty grave is interviewing the dark, is carving memories between falling stars, is…
Legacy
I know how to disappear. I learned it from my mother who learned it from her mother and my great grandmother who went poof! one night right in the middle of dinner. After that, my grandmother went, in between white sheets hanging on a line in the yard, poof! Then my mother as she held…
