Foreign, unpossessed places: Writing for the St. Augustine Record

Originally published in the St. Augustine Record, this was my farewell column to the first job I ever loved.

It’s rough in a lot of places, and 9 years after it was first published, there’s a lot I wish I could change. But it’s nice seeing it now and knowing that the heart was still there, even when I wasn’t sure I’d ever be writing professionally after its publication.

The following six years of my life were spent in oil fields from California to Oklahoma, knowing it wasn’t right, but knowing it was what I had to do. I’m thankful for all of it.