I moved to Chicago in October of 2005. I’d just done a three and a half month road trip around the US. And now I was living alone in a suburb of Chicago. It was a situation brought about by chance and random friend connections, a self-imposed exile of sorts. I hadn’t lived in anything […]

There is no contentedness in days as cold as these. I’m forever writing about the winter and how it cuts me. Once I’m in, and fully immersed, I can handle it, but it’s these slow painful days that creep down towards freezing that make my skin prickle and scream with every centimeter.
These songs are sad […]