Mem-war

Hey! Here’s a picture of me, back in the day. Below it you’ll hear modern-day me reading a creative nonfiction story I put together with the help of the good people of Wrath-Bearing Tree and So Say We All (Veteran Writers’ Division), about the kinds of things that were going on at the time this picture was taken….

In an anthology chock-full with revealing poetry and prose, more than 50 emerging and established military writers unpack their stories of sacrifice, hardship, joy, and laughter in uniform!

I drum the steering wheel of the rental car with the flats of my palms. It’s the opening riff of a song by Yaz. It takes three notes, four—that blossoming into a fanfare of electronic horns, and I’m a teenager in the 80s driving these same roads in Ingrid’s crap Toyota, bellowing along. “Don’t make …