The Lost Car Story

While living with the Wickman's on the farm in Iowa County I began to explore entirely new avenues of poor judgement and creative misadventure. I already had a good education in excessive urban antics and now it was time see how well I could adapt to some down home country debauchery and debacles. And when …

Enough About the Chicken

I met Dave the summer before my senior year. He was a childhood friend of a guy I knew from drama classes, Justin, and while we had not exactly hit it off, Justin believed that me and Dave had a lot more in common, and insisted he introduce me when Dave came up from Texas …

The Maggie May Dance Assault

In early 2005 I moved into what was my first whole place to myself as an adult. Before this I always had roommates or lived in boarding houses with shared bathrooms, kitchens and living spaces. For the past six months I had been living on a farm in Iowa County with Jason and Wendy Wickman …

Everything In A Thought

"Wow, you weren't kidding, you really can see ten times as many stars from here," Sati marveled to her companion. "I don't think I have seen anything even close since my family went on vacation to New Mexico when I was fifteen." "You didn't think I would drive us all the way out here if …

She Thinks She Missed the Train to Mars, She’s Out Back Blowing Slipknot

Slipknot, Hum and fumbling my love all over the place in 1997.