Erica McKeehen | Marginalia

This year, I turn 36. It will be roughly two decades since the summer I saved up enough money from my job at the Dairy Crest (a local, sea..

Amidst the chaos of preparing for the end of the semester comes the all-too-brief but definitely welcome break for Thanksgiving. This year..

After I became involved with burlesque and began earning my first Master’s in Arts Management at Columbia College Chicago, I started conce..

Welcome back readers! (Maybe I’m just saying welcome back to myself because even though this is my first blog post of the 2022-2023 school..

The semester is winding down. Only five-ish weeks to go (I think). After spring break, and settling into a pattern of rest and relaxation,..

Well, after five weeks of lots of couch time spent getting reacquainted with my old friends Gordon Ramsay and carbohydrates, the semester ..

Lately, the days have been rushing past me and suddenly I’ve found myself in the final weeks of my first semester of my MFA. “What do thes..

In the winter of 2016, just after the Trump election, I was invited to my first burlesque show by my friend Kitty Tornado, who was a new l..