Personal essays


NONFICTION

Special Feature


Good Tidings, Dustin Grinnell, 2016

Fake It ’Til You Make It, The Manifest Station, 2023

Corporate Disobedience, Journal of Autoethnography, 2023

The Power of Storytelling, Past Forward, 2022

Adventures in Examining Life, The AutoEthnographer, 2022

The Gift of Pain, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, 2021

The Stick, Drunk Monkeys, 2022

Learning to Love My Fate, Quest Magazine, 2021

The Language of My Father, The Atherton Review, 2022

How to Fix a Bluey Heart, The Manifest Station, 2021

How I Thought My Way Into Illness, Then Thought My Out, Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, 2019

Keeping the Channel Open, The Good Men Project, 2019

Hoedown at McDonald’s, The Good Men Project, 2019

Walkabout Love, Perceptive Travel, 2017

Letters from Dad, GoMad Nomad Travel Mag & Living Now Magazine, 2017

Backed up in China, Lost Magazine, 2018

The Hate Game, The Good Men Project, 2016

Finding My Sleep in China, TravelMag, 2016

In Defense of Quixote, Lost & Found, 2015

Sunrise Earth Delivers a Morning Dose of Awe, The Good Men Project, 2019

Departing Down the Middle, Living Now Magazine, 2015

A Sudden Stab of Murky Suspicion, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2015

Missing Paris, The Expeditioner, 2015

A Taste of Glory, Narratively, 2014

The Dizziness of Freedom, Details, 2014

In all Fairness, Verge Magazine, 2015

Up Fever Slope, Salon, 2015

Doubt isn’t Sexy, The Washington Post, 2016

A Lesson in Safety, Boston Globe, 2016