Writing Samples

Then You’ve Seen Me

Originally posted 10/3/2018

A stabbing pain in TJ Wilson’s right knee woke him up routinely each morning. As he slowly stretched awake, the sharp pain would gradually dissipate, giving way to a dull ache for the remainder of the day. Wilson couldn’t remember a time in his life where he didn’t wake up each morning in pain. He rolled over and grabbed…

This Could Be The Last Time

Jan 8, 2020

George and Lee walked into Charlie O’s the night before University of Rhode Island’s class of 2011 graduation. The entire week…

The Retiring of a Legend

Sep 21, 2014

I was re-reading Bart Giamatti’s “Green Fields of the Mind,” the other day and it was almost too fitting that, playing in the background…

Autumn In Rhode Island

Aug 15, 2016

something continuously draws me to the Rhode Island autumns that I secretly miss and long to be a part of once again. Rhode Island…

Thoreau the Yogi

Dec 3, 2015

As far as I know, Henry David Thoreau wasn’t a practicing yogi. That doesn’t necessarily mean that some of his beliefs and writings…