Literacy for People, the Planet, and the Minutes
The most-quoted literacy statistic in America was withdrawn by its own publisher. It's still on posters today. What that means for a county that lost its paper.
Kentucky
It's Always in Motion
A year back in the Bluegrass, what I've been doing instead of a career, and where Creative Recess goes next.
KY Policy 2026: Civic Intelligence from the Ground Up
A structured civic intelligence initiative tracking federal, state, and local power in Kentucky's 2026 cycle — with Pendleton County as the methodological ground. Non-partisan in method. Non-neutral in analysis. Tracking power is accuracy.
The County Clerk's Office in Falmouth
The county clerk is now a federal voter integrity endpoint. Montana has the first real legal theory against Citizens United in fifteen years. The V-Dem Institute just recorded democracy's largest single-year decline since 1789. The window is now.
I Came Back as Someone Who Could See It
I left "the southern side of Northern Kentucky" for fifteen years. I came back having navigated sobriety, an HIV diagnosis, and an emerging spiritual practice — and found the argument for my book living in the data and drama of home.
The Licking River
Falmouth, Kentucky, was originally called Forks of Licking. On March 1, 1997, the river rose 50 feet and took the town. A Kentucky State Police trooper flew over by helicopter and said, 'There is no Falmouth.’ It was days before my ninth birthday.