There’s that Goth kid episode of South Park  where Stan’s girlfriend dumps him so he decides to be goth and he asks the goth kids how to...

Growing up in Northernass Wisconsin in the 80s and 90s, we had a Hardees, a KFC, and a Dairy Queen with sod thrown over the sides and top...

photo by Mark Rogers We arrive in Ciudad Obregon an hour before midnight. Sophy’s twin sisters Eva and Evie are traveling so we pick up...

At his heaviest John Candy weighed 300 pounds. At my heaviest I weighed 325 pounds. Which is right now. They talk about how Candy...

"Dancing in the Dark" Something's wrong. I hit the snooze button one too many times and my boss says that I'm late. My feet hurt. I can't...

artwork by Mark Rogers I was in the lounge of a movie theater, waiting for the next show to begin. Sitting next to me was a middle-aged...

I’m at a bar in Kansas City with a shirt that says NOT DEAD YET. It’s as close as I can come to optimism.  In Kansas City.  In February....

I was eight years old and had taken a drive with my father to Bushlands outside of Amarillo. We arrived at a placed called the Floating...

photo by Mark Rogers Years ago, on an evening game drive in Zambia, driving along in an open Land Rover, we come across three lionesses...

I got home from work, showered and changed, and immediately ordered an Uber. One minute before he was scheduled to pick me up, I remember...