-
Start Here – About Adam Rockwell
•
1 min read
Hey — I’m Adam Rockwell. I write from the Oregon Coast, where the sea fog is thick, the tsunamis are hypothetical (so far), and the agates are elusive but satisfying. Here’s what goes on around here: ✏️ Short essays, photos, and daily dispatches from my writing life. Think: weird weather, half-eaten snacks, and the occasional existential […]
Keep Reading—More Inside! →: Start Here – About Adam Rockwell
-
House People in an Apartment
•
3 min read
If you’re “building a house,” are you really building a house? I live on the third floor of an apartment in Newport, Oregon. There are stairs involved. I’d complain, but we have a nice view of the Pacific from our deck. My office on the other hand… My office is on the parking lot side […]
Keep Reading—More Inside! →: House People in an Apartment
-
The Portland Airport & Sneaker Migraines
•
4 min read
My little family of three got the privilege of going to the Portland International Airport last week. I got the privilege of a migraine as a thank-you gift. We live on the Coast of Oregon and I am LOATHE to leave the seaboard in summer. Often, when it’s 62 degrees in Newport, it’s 105 in […]
Keep Reading—More Inside! →: The Portland Airport & Sneaker Migraines
-
Urn Living: My Father’s First Time On a Plane
•
2 min read
This is my father pictured below. Norm Keith Rockwell. He went by Keith, but people loved to call him Norman Rockwell because who wouldn’t! He WAS an art teacher and a magazine cartoonist, not the painter, not that that mattered. In 2023 he died after a short illness he was hoping would be a bit […]
Keep Reading—More Inside! →: Urn Living: My Father’s First Time On a Plane
-
I Was Secretly a Ghostwriter for 19 Years 👻
•
8 min read
Just found out a year ago. I’m a ghostwriter. There, I said it. Now you know my deep dark secret. But I never tried to become a ghostwriter, per se. In fact, I didn’t even know I was a ghostwriter until about a year ago. Why? Because the definition of what a ghostwriter is has […]
Keep Reading—More Inside! →: I Was Secretly a Ghostwriter for 19 Years 👻
-
I live in Newport, Oregon. It is a nice little city on the Central Oregon Coast. Last week, on Wednesday, in the late afternoon we got tsunami alerts coming into all our phones and emails and texts and ham radios. We were under “TSUNAMI WATCH!” That’s something easy to forget about around here. The constant […]
Keep Reading—More Inside! →: Writing a Tsunami Novel During a Real Tsunami Advisory
-
The Lutefisk Mafia Of Southern Minnesota
•
7 min read
The criminals of Fargo (movie and TV Show) are not so far from the truth. I lived in Minnesota for over a decade and man, oh man, I have seen some things. Some… criminal things. In MINNESOTA. It ain’t all church socials, Velveeta hotdish, and Garrison Keillor in Minnesota. No sir. There are also ne’er-do-wells. […]
Keep Reading—More Inside! →: The Lutefisk Mafia Of Southern Minnesota
-
The Wisconsin Cheese Curd Way
•
9 min read
Fresh, room temperature, Wisconsin cheese curds. Salty and squeaky. If you haven’t had fresh cheese curds, you haven’t really had cheese curds. You just had “cheese.” I lived in Wisconsin for most of my life, but just over ten years ago we got on the real Oregon Trail, Interstate 90, never to return. Well, except […]
Keep Reading—More Inside! →: The Wisconsin Cheese Curd Way
-
Thank You, World Book Encyclopedia
•
3 min read
I grew up in small town Wisconsin in the 1980s. In the before times. Before the internet times. We had a good little public school system, but I wasn’t exactly an honor roll student. Regardless of my standing at school, people thought I was smart. “He’s so smart!” they would say. Also, “He’s so arrogant!” […]
Keep Reading—More Inside! →: Thank You, World Book Encyclopedia
-
I Am Not Crossing That Bridge When I Come To It
•
6 min read
I SUFFER from gephyrophobia: An anxiety disorder that causes an unnatural fear of… bridges. Yup, bridges! That’s me. 😅 I was struck down with gephyrophobia when I was about 18 years old. Maybe you have it too? There are lots of us out here. It’s time us gephyrophobics to stand up and say, “No! This is a […]
Keep Reading—More Inside! →: I Am Not Crossing That Bridge When I Come To It
Adam Rockwell | Writer
Author of The Unexpected Exorcist