Tangents Stories

White House calls spousal abuse hotline

The national news media was abuzz with the news that the White House called a Washington, DC-based spousal abuse hotline, distraught after dealing with Donald Trump for the last six months.  “This is a private matter,” said spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “The White House is doing fine, and wouldn’t feel this way if the fake news media wasn’t reporting the real news, no matter how much we try to distract you with fake news.” Sanders also stated the White House would feel better after some

Fighting for The Double Door Inn

On January 2nd of this year, The Double Door Inn held its final show. After visiting and photographing the building for 23 years, I was witnessing the last night of a place that had come to mean so much to me. My emotions that night were mixed. As others came to grips with the venue’s closing, I silently held out hope for the building to be moved. It was something that myself and others had been working on by this point for months, with occasional flickers of hope.  I first stepped into The

Letter to myself

As of late, things that didn't make sense before currently are becoming clearer. I'm excited. The steadiness that it took to be here was something I had to grow into. Something that I am continually growing into. You can't miss time. You can only waste it.  There is an exercise I do every so often to remind myself why I started, and where I come from ... and that I should keep going. I write a letter to myself. I want to share with you the most recent one I wrote before I moved back to North