Losing the Pacific Northwest – A Travel Year in Review
Losing a place is different from leaving it. 2025 was not a year of great distances. It was a year of inward movement. Of subtle shifts, of places that can no longer be reached, and of the things that endured. The farewell to the Pacific Northwest runs through everything like a quiet fault line.The PNW…
Vinyl Stories: A Broken Frame
I came to A Broken Frame late.My door into the room called Depeche Mode was Construction Time Again, and only after standing in that harsher, more industrial light did I turn around and notice what was already behind me. Looking back, it still feels almost unreal how much this band changed in the span of…
Traveling Home Before Christmas
There is a song that many people no longer really want to hear. Not because it’s bad, but because it has been worn thin by repetition. Played too often, too loudly, and too predictably every December. Driving Home for Christmas has become seasonal background noise for many. Yet, stripped of overuse, it still describes those…
