Jonathan Laughrin

Just a Cook, that's me—though life’s called me many names. Since I was 7, I’ve been creating: drawing, cooking, and pouring my heart into stories, poetry, songs, and sayings, with totes full of them to prove it. I used to sing, back when my voice could carry a tune, before beer and smokes roughed it up. Always dreamed of strumming a guitar or tickling piano keys, but my pinky fingers, worn from video game controllers, never got the hang of it. So, I wrote. For 28 years, driving a semi-truck across the country, I’ve had conversations with myself, spinning new sayings and songs from the r...