Other Writings

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Shredding the Past: Letters, Memory, and Other Dangerous Activities, Compulsively Aimless, December 7, 2025.

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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Perch Sandwiches, Baby Steps, and Other Memories of Growing Up on the Great Lakes, 

The Great Lakes Review, October 30, 2025.

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Pop or Soda: The Roots of My Midwestern Identity

Middle West Review, Volume 11, Number 1, Fall 2024

REFLECTIONS: A Midwestern Story Teller of the Inland Seas: A Tribute to Walter Havighurst, Jacqueline Johnson and John W. Kropf 

Middle West Review, Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2024

Book Review Essay: Ruin, Revival, and Something in Between: Memoirs of the Rust Belt

Middle West Review, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2023 

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A Hierarchy of Nonsense, A Blog of Bosh, May 8, 2023

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The Spirit of Innovation in Ohio Cities
Middle West Review, Volume 9, Number 1, Fall 2022

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Dark Odessey (poem), Burningword Journal, 2016​

 

At the Poker Table, a Bizarre Bond Was in the Cards

The Washington Post, September 20, 2004

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Blog

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Compulsively Aimless,  a blog I've maintained since 2011, which includes short poems, book lists, and other mildly entertaining essays.