by Adrien Palmer | | Artist Profiles
Writing Portfolio Below are links to sites and clients I've provided copy services for, along with brief explanations of my process. I've had the honor of working as part of a team, individually, and as part of Wayfarist Media. Each section provides a link to a...
by Adrien Palmer | | Short Stories
“Don’t tell Marya. Don’t stop smiling. Don’t stop…” “Mommy, what does it say?” From above, her eyes seemed enlarged, as if every aspect of her body was a frame for those twin living portraits. There was a simple trust...
by Adrien Palmer | | Word Studies
Petrichor is a combination of two Greek terms, one of which is simply bad-ass. πέτρα petra (stone) and ἰχώρ īchōr (the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods). It’s hard to explain why this image is so compelling. I get a kick out of words that describe...
by Adrien Palmer | | Word Studies
Stories are at the core of our being. They move us more than facts and logic ever will. Goya is at the core of why stories are more than words, and why they live in our minds and bodies in ways few other things can. گویا (Urdu): As If or As Though It Were” For...
by Adrien Palmer | | Interviews and Reviews
Megan Landry continues to create musical masterpieces. Her 2015 release, Stills, was many things, but above all, it was impressive. In an era of single-driven, hit-or-miss albums with ample filler tracks, Megan Landry clearly puts exquisite effort and detail into...
by Adrien Palmer | | Short Stories
Soon his perspective swelled to completely encompass the edges of The Mountain. He now saw it was framed with hundreds, if not thousands of small lines, intersecting, crashing at odd angles in every direction for miles and miles. He could only vaguely remember the...
by Adrien Palmer | | Short Stories
Then one day a bird came along. Except the bird was a woman? She spoke as one. She told of how she had also ascended a mountain once and had made many trips back down to bring Others with her. Until the day she started flying. Many listened with wonder and awe at her...
by Adrien Palmer | | Artist Profiles, Interviews and Reviews
One of my favorite things about life, in all of its aspects, is surprises. The value of pop music is its ability to be immediately familiar and comfortably simple. I’ll warn you now: if you want an album that will not offer surprises or deviate more than a...
by Adrien Palmer | | Artist Profiles, Interviews and Reviews
It took five sets of stairs to climb to the third floor. Not all apartment buildings are as user-friendly as one would hope. Nor every human as intuitive as architects would hope… I was curious to finally meet the man whose music I had gotten to know pretty well...
by Adrien Palmer | | Word Studies
For anyone like me who grew up Protestant in the Bible Belt, these words were probably among the first you ever heard from the Word. They are probably most popular on January first when millions of over-ambitious readers check day one off of their Bible-in-a-year...
by Adrien Palmer | | Artist Profiles, Interviews and Reviews
How many times can you say something is strange or abnormal before you have to change your definition of “normal”? I asked myself this as I sat in an uncomfortably warm room during yet another “abnormally” hot October afternoon in Dallas....
by Adrien Palmer | | Short Stories
One day, children were born. It was much like any other day, and they were much like any other children; full of wonder, adventure and a longing for glory. From the time they became their own beings, they began creating castles, forts and battles in their minds,...
