uh oh, correction needed
Hi! So Abby just informed me that I’ve committed a most grievous error. those books i listed were books I LIKED, not books I didn’t like. I was musing aloud...
ho ho hooooo i can't see
I'm using voice recognition on my Google doc because my eyes are having a moment, and not in a good way. as you may know (I talked about it here) I had...
Don't be alarmed
I recently had a short story published, and if you’d like to read it, do I have good news for you: “Don’t Be Alarmed” is available online. The Sun, a...
Hi, it's me! Hi!
“I haven’t written in too long,” I told Abby, and she said, “write about the changing seasons,” and I was like, “You mean, talk about the leaves?” and she...
Why does he do this to me
Too many topics for one title to handle
Our new next door neighbors removed all their trees. All of them. “They hate trees!” I shouted to Scott, peering through the blind slats, as workers chain-...
A little business
Hello! I have moved the newsletter away from Substack and over to Buttondown, for various reasons. One of those reasons (not the only one, though) is that...
Things I Have Purchased and Liked: Summer Edition
Enjoy some recommendations while I get my head together
A shocking tale of nudity and denial
You heard me.
On parenting, protests, and puking
(Not my puking, I should specify. FUN puking. Oh. you'll see.)
Rerun: It's kamikaze bee season
Why you should always fear bees, and the elderly.
It doesn't have to be hard
This one is going behind the paywall, because there is NEWS and TENDER PERSONAL things and other REASONS to CAPITALIZE.A lesson I keep learning and re-...
Random notes from April
Part of my ongoing efforts to distract from, you know, the horrors
My birth story
An old, gross favorite.
Another story about getting too high
When will I ever learn
Different strokes or whatever
Why can't my friends be just like me?
Is this thing on?
Friends! Everything is such steaming garbage. It’s incredible! I too am silently screaming into my pillow and yelling “What?!” at the clouds. I am become...
Go on and get it, girl
I am a woman of some years, and I’m not one to say you automatically decline as you get older (if I did, would come after me with her army of vibrant elders)...
I feel bad; do you feel bad?
If you want to wallow for a bit, hang out here with me
A thousand times
Despite (points to everything), my seasonal bummed-outedness (technical term) seems to be lifting. I credit a weekend hanging out in the city with Scott,...