Marketing Portfolio Links:
Greenfield Planning Case Study
Starling Technology Case Study
Nonfiction Publications:
“Illness and the Movement of Time” (Essay)
(Adelaide Literary Magazine, December 25, 2022, Issue 56)
“On the Prevalence of Hunger” (Essay/Commentary)
(Dissident Voice, November 2, 2022)
“Systems of Abuse in American Civil Service: A Few Personal Reflections” (Essay/Commentary)
(Dissident Voice, March 28, 2022)
“The Eames Chair and Optimism: The American Aesthetic at Midcentury” (Essay)(Apricity Magazine, Volume IV, 2022, print edition)
“The Digital Humanities: Ideas for Park Users” (Essay/Current Affairs)
(Urban Park Culture, Fall/Winter, 2021)
“Mass Communication at Midcentury” (Essay/Current Affairs)
(Sharp Silhouette Literary Magazine, Fall/Winter, 2021)
“Promising Ruins: The Life of Inner-City Parks in San Diego, California” (Essay/Current Affairs)
(Sharp Silhouette Literary Magazine, Fall/Winter, 2021)
“A Theory of Exchange” (Poem)
(Littoral Magazine, United Kingdom, September 21, 2021)
“White Pelican Migrations: Thoughts on Nature and the Movement of Time”
(The Templeman Review, University of Kent, Summer, 2021)
“A Donation of Cypress Pines” (Prose Poem)
(La Piccioletta Barca, University of Cambridge, Issue 33)
“Sepia Progressions of Form” (Poem & Photo Narrative)
(Ink, Sweat and Tears, United Kingdom, March 29, 2021)
“The Fallen Outlook” (Prose Poem)
(Artifact Nouveau: San Juaquin Delta College, Spring, 2021)
“Dead Animals on Literary Magazine Covers” (Essay)
(Nonconformist Magazine, November 16, 2020—Culture Section)
“Coffee at Mount Hope Cemetery” (Essay)
(MORIA: The National Literary Magazine of Woodbury University, November 30, 2020)
Inroads: An Urban Park Anthology: Collected Essays, 2007-2019
(City of San Diego, Parks & Recreation Department, 2020)
“Doorway Perspectives 1” (Photo Collage Piece)
(El Portal Magazine, Eastern New Mexico University, Fall, 2020)
“Neighborly Intrusions: Thoughts on the Art of Living Next Door” (Essay)
(The Opiate Magazine, Volume 21, Spring, 2020)
“Our Technological Age of Ease and Frivolity” (Essay/Current Affairs)
(Packingtown Review, University of Illinois at Champagne, Spring, 2020)
“Jazz Pianist Hampton Hawes: Remembering a Relative” (Memoir)
(All About Jazz, Guest blog piece, Winter, 2020)
“Bubble Man: Thoughts on the Strange Beauty of Street Performance”
(Midway Journal, Winter, 2020)
(Nominated for the “2020 Best of the Net” 1000 Below Flash Nonfiction and Poetry Contest)
“Alone in a Silent Grove” (Poem)
(October Hill Magazine, November 15, 2019)
“Borrowing the Light: Thoughts on Modern Intimacy”
(Brief Wilderness, October, 2019)
“City Parks: The Urban Expression of Nature”
(The Green Light: A Literary Journal, September, 2019)
“Late Afternoon: On the Passing of a Coworker”
(The Scarlet Leaf Review, September, 2019)
“Family History: When the Past Remains a Secret”
(Dream Noir, July 26, 2019)
“Fading Horizons: Regarding the Decline of American Mall Culture” (Essay/Current Affairs)
(Belle Ombre Literary Journal, Spring, 2019)
“Having a Pension: The Last America Dream Becomes an Element of Myth” (Essay/Current Affairs)
(The Bangalore Review, March, 2019)
“On the Death of a Morton Bay Fig Tree”
(Otis Nebula Press and Magazine, Summer, 2019)
“An Ascent: Considering the Shadows of a Stone Staircase”
(Adelaide Literary Magazine, August, 2018, Finalist, Literary Award Competition, 2018, Awards
Anthology contributor)
“Red Wine in the Neighbor’s Garden: A Few Moments without Technology” (Essay and Photo)
(The American Wine Society Wine Journal, Spring, 2018)
“The Sense Tour: Educational Programming for the San Diego Blind Community Center”
(Essay and Photo)
(Parks & Recreation Magazine, December 6, 2017)
“Nighttime Landscapes: A Memory of Iridescent Green”
(Adelaide Voices Literary Contest, 2018, Essay Category Finalist, Adelaide Literary Magazine Awards
Anthology)
Mid-Century Modern: The Postwar Aesthetic in Architecture and Writing (Balboa Park Writing
Workshop Publication)
The Visual Dynamics of Mid-Century Modern Life (Balboa Park Writing Workshop Publication)
“Archivist Interview with Jane Kenealy”
(Friends of Balboa Park Website, 2017-2018)
“Exploring the Silent Film Era at the San Diego Archives with The Chain of Blue: A Journal Published
for Lovers of the Best in Photoplays 1919 to 1920”
(Friends of Balboa Park Website, 2017-2018)
“Of Ideas and Images: Exploring Photographs at the San Diego History Center”
(Friends of Balboa Park Website, 2017-2018)
“Thinking About Biographies: A Glance at the Life of William Templeton Johnson, San Diego Architect”
(Friends of Balboa Park Website, 2017-2018)
The Oral History Project at the San Diego History Center: An Interview with Jane Kenealy
(Friends of Balboa Park Website, 2017-2018)
Note: The essays I originally published on the Friends of Balboa Park website are now available at the
archives of the San Diego History Center as part of their physical document collection.
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Publications Developed:
Chollas News (Monthly Park Visitor Newsletter)
Urban Park Culture: Celebrating the City Park Environment
(Fall/Winter, 2021)
Sharp Silhouette: A Literary Magazine (Fall/Winter, 2021)
Photography: A Manual of Ideas (September, 2018)
Magazine for the Monthly Writing Workshop of Balboa Park
(Instructional Content for my Creative Writing Students, 2016-2018)
Topics for Park Professionals
(City of San Diego electronic publication, 2011-2012)
Urban Flora & Fauna Weekly
(Essay publication for Chollas Lake Park, 2009-2014