D&F 2-21-21
D&F 2/21/21 drafts It’s nearly the end of February, and it’s starting to get sunny again here in the Bay Area, while my home state of Texas is absolutely...
D&F 2-14-21
D&F 2/14/21 Ah the big day of disappointment, chocolate, and confusion. A pox upon Mr. Valentine and the prevalence of regret-inducing lactose. I hope you...
D&F 2/8/21
D&F 2/8/21 It's a new month, and I'm getting back into Survivor a bit. I blame this fully on my friend Christine, who recently dove deep into Cagayan. As...
D&F 1-31-21
D&F 1/31/21 drafts One down, eleven to go! 2021 is still all stonks and a mad scramble to unfuck the mess the last White House inhabitants left. I bet the...
D&F 1-24-21
D&F 1/24/21 Happy Bernie meme week! Far and away, these are my two favorite ones: https://twitter.com/kevinsukholee/status/1352687755621351425?s=21...
D&F 1-17-21
D&F 1/17/21 2021 is wild so far! Between people I know actually getting vaccines, an incredibly scary coup attempt, and a few blessed days of rain I'm not...
D&F 1-10-21
D&F 1/10/21 Well, it's been quite the week. With both a [violent invasion of the nation's capital by a bunch of...
D&F 1-3-21
D&F 1/3/21 Happy new year, and あけおめ to my Japanese pals! We made it to the end of 2020. What a wild and rough time for the world. I hope you had a lovely...
D&F 12-27-20
D&F 12/27/20 Welcome to the last links newsletter of 2020! We've almost finished this terrible year. Congratulations, or as the show Alice in Borderland...
D&F 12-20-20
D&F 12-20-20 Today marks my second day of a long vacation. I hope you are also getting a bit of a break from 2020 right here at the end of the year. The Bay...
D&F 12/13/20
D&F 12/13/20 Ah, tis the week of penis2 https://twitter.com/tanisthelesbiab/status/1334561466175787008?s=20 If you don't care about Cyberpunk 2077, skip to...
D&F 12/7/20
D&F 12/7/20 Instead of writing this on Saturday, as I usually do, I drank a lot of nog + aquavit (nogavit) at a distance with my friend Lena, and then...
Dill & Fennel 11-29-20
D&F 11/29/20 Greetings from the tail-end of a vacation week for your hostess. I celebrated my birthday on Thursday with a couple friends, a couple bottles of...
Dill & Fennel 11-22-20
Dill & Fennel 11/22/20 Ah the start of my birthday week. https://twitter.com/brookshelley/status/1329341287166734336?s=20 Birthdays aren't my favorite thing,...
Dill & Fennel 11-15-20
Dill & Fennel 11/15/20 Can you believe we’re halfway through November? Despite the sameness of many days during this mostly-constant quarantine, this year is...
Dill & Fennel 11-8-20
Dill & Fennel 11/8/20 As I write this, we’re fresh off the calling of the election for Joe Biden. I’m celebrating. I’m celebrating four years without a...
Dill & Fennel 11-1-20
Dill & Fennel 11/1/20 Good morning race fans (jk I know like only one of you likes Formula 1). Spooky season is over. I hope you had the maximal amount of...
Dill & Fennel 10-25-20
Dill & Fennel 10/25/20 Happy Sunday! It’s Portugal GP time in the Formula one world, and potentially a record-breaking victory for Lewis Hamilton, beating...
Dill & Fennel 10-18-20
Dill & Fennel 10/18/20 Another week is in the can, midway through spooky season. I’m seeing some really wild Halloween decorations in my neighborhood, but am...
Dill & Fennel 10-11-20
Dill & Fennel 10/11/20 Let’s get SPOOKY! https://twitter.com/lindseybieda/status/1314019257500479488?s=20 We’re only a few days away from what could be a...
Dill & Fennel 10-4-20
Dill & Fennel 10/4/20 October is full of surprises and delights so far. I feel like so many of us have held our collective breath, waiting for folks who so...
Dill & Fennel 9-27-20
Dill & Fennel 9/27/20 Everybody watch out, I own a laser now. Far from being a futuristic laser pistol, it’s a much more banal home hair removal laser. As a...
Dill & Fennel 9-20-20
Dill & Fennel 9/20/20 Finally, a brief respite in the smoke! I got to go on a nice long bike ride around the lake as soon as the air hit green. The rest of...
Dill & Fennel 9-17-20
Dill & Fennel 9/14/20 Greetings from the surface of Mars! Wednesday in the Bay Area was deeply scary and awful, but the smoke has stayed here albeit in a...
Dill & Fennel 9-6-20
Dill & Fennel 9-6-20 Well, it’s hot again in the Bay Area, on top of this wild smoke we’ve got everywhere. I’m pretty tired of it, for one, especially since...
Dill & Fennel 8-30-20
Dill & Fennel 8/30/20 Welcome to my delayed last newsletter of the month. I had some pals by yesterday to sit at a distance in my courtyard and when the last...
Dill & Fennel 8/23/20
Ah, breathe deep the fires of California. Just in case you needed another reason to stay inside and wear a mask, dry thunderstorms have delivered. I don’t...
Dill & Fennel August 17
This weeks email was written an entire day early as I plan to head up a mountain and camp for a night. It's going to be hot so I hope the mountain is a...
Dill & Fennel 8/17/20
Dill & Fennel 8-9-20
Dill & Fennel 8/9/20 How’s your August going? Are you doing any hiking or swimming? Planning any solo adventures? I’m planning a backpacking trip in the near...
Dill & Fennel 31
Dill & Fennel 31 (Hopefully this isn’t a duplicate—if it is, sorry. Had some technical challenges today) Another weekend is upon us! Blessed weekend! It’s...
Dill & Fennel 30
Dill & Fennel 30 This weekend was pretty nice in the Shelley house—we started early by taking Friday off to volunteer for the Women’s Foundation (Snorri...
Fennel & Dill 29
Fennel & Dill 29 Happy March 141st! Time continues to show up for me in the cycles of life—laundry, therapy, medicine, and plant watering. With news that...
Fennel & Dill 28
Fennel & Dill Another week, and another Formula One race in Austria. For the first time in the over 70 year history of this race series two races occurred at...
Fennel & Dill 27
Well, the long weekend and constant fireworks in Oakland threw me for a loop! I lost track of the days and thought it was Saturday, and I still had an entire...
Fennel & Dill 26
The bay this week was thankfully cooler than the past month. My body was thankful for the heat respite, and Snorri was cuddlier as a result. This week felt...
Dill & Fennel 25
It’s a foggy, overcast Saturday as I write this newsletter. Yesterday, my company gave Juneteenth off as time to volunteer and remember, and I spent most of...
Fennel & Dill 24
It’s been a rough week for so many folks I love due to police violence and a Friday rollback of national trans healthcare. I hope you’re taking care of...
Fennel & Dill—Week 23
This is my eleventh week in quarantine, since I was in Japan when the Bay Area shut down. COVID is still scary, but it’s been an even harder week due to...
Fennel & Dill: Week 22
Week 22 It's been a busy week! At my company, we had Monday and Friday off, and most of our staff took off the entire week. I decided to work through the...
Fennel & Dill: Week 21
Welp, first sunburn of the quarantine for this gal. I spent the afternoon in a friend’s yard (hi André and Haley) and forgot my skin has been softened by...
Fennel & Dill: Week Twenty
Trying out a new name for this that isn’t just “links”. Fennel and dill are two of my favorite flavors, but also a terrible combination. They also happen to...
Links: Week Nineteen
Ten loaves of sourdough! That’s how many loaves I have made thus far during the pandemic (or pan-demic if you’ll excuse my pun). Have you found a fulfilling...
Links: Week Eighteen
Happy May! We made it through an April that lasted conservatively one thousand years. I hope you’re well, and finding new ways of living and thriving as we...
Links: Week Seventeen
This is the week of the Magic Keyboard which I’m using to write this email. If you’re curious, or considering picking one up, the linked review should help...
Links: Week Sixteen
This week marked my first sourdough loaves, which were delicious and a bit flat. It turns out having a scale is crucial, and hopefully next week I will get...
Links: Week Fifteen
Welcome to your weekly installment of “what’s Brook reading and clicking on now?” The quarantine here in the Bay Area is 4 weeks on, I think, and today I...
Links: Week Fourteen
This week I spent some time thinking about hoarding. Specifically, toilet paper hoarding. I’ve yet to venture out this week to the grocery, but the TP...
Links Week Thirteen
Ah, I’ve returned to the Americas. This week, Japan started quarantining as well, so I just missed the cutoff there and was largely able to enjoy wandering...
Links: Week twelve
Hello from a 200mph Nozomi Shinaksen train on my way to Tokyo! This train still feels like the future, and it’s especially wild that people are riding it and...