Books

The Birthmark Scar

Sold by Ozark Mountain Press

The Birthmark Scar originated as a way to psychologically record and process the death of a father and how coping with death introduced concepts regarding psychics, past-lives, and synchronicity.

The Birthmark Scar includes angels, tarot readings, energy work, intuition, past life experiences, magick, Pagan rituals, psychics, and witchcraft. We believe that sometimes the best learning comes from story. In today’s world, metaphysical traditions blend together, and many called to explore their spirituality are overwhelmed by the strangeness of it all. What is most difficult to understand is past lives; they are easy to grab hold of intellectually, but true processing of past lives is deep emotional and spiritual work. Our intention is to use this fictionalized version of Paul’s life experiences to inspire and teach people about what it means to grapple with the deepest, hidden aspects of self. We felt a deep connection with a narrator undergoing a modern spiritual crisis, we believe others are too. Part of what makes this work unique is its approach to historicizing witchcraft. Characters in various centuries practice herbal medicine and rituals, and grapple with threats from institutional authority, but new information about what that was really like to experience is introduced.

Secrets on Accelerating Your Growth: 52 Weeks of Skills and Principles for Growing Your Small Business

Ghostwritten for Alex Davydov. I applied my Writing Center and teaching pedagogy training to formatting the author’s knowledge, experience, and wisdom into a series of lessons and exercises.

Articles and Sundry

Availability of Centralized Community GIS mapping data

Report on GIS as one of the 2023 Top 5 Techs in public works

You too, can leverage culture to drive results (Nov ‘23)

Report on speaker at the 2023 Public Works Expo

APWA builds relationship with federal agency to promote “good cyber hygiene” (Nov ‘23)

Coverage of ‘fireside chat’ between CISA head and APWA present at the 2023 Public Works Expo

Partner of Choice: Cultural Property Protection in Military Engagement

Laurie Rush is the brains and experience, I rewrote large swaths for clarity.

Dystopian Literature, Emotion, and Utopian Longing

My master’s thesis

The genre of dystopian novels has long been theorized from a historical materialist lens. Utopian longing, which is the didactic focus of dystopian texts, functions as much from emotion as cognition. Historical materialist readings tend to undervalue emotion in tracing a character’s shifting relationship to the dystopian sociopolitical landscape that the character finds him or herself in. Using three dystopian novels, Stand on Zanzibar (1968), We Who Are About To… (1977) and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), this paper outlines recent theory of emotion in sociology, psychology and cultural studies in order to argue for the importance of attending to emotion in interpreting the relationship between characters and their sociopolitical context.