The slow and unyielding march of time

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The slow and unyielding march of time, episode 41
February 8, 2025
Hi friends, It's been a pretty intense few weeks! As a federal worker, I’ve been experiencing a lot of ... stuff, and am struggling to process it, especially...
The slow and unyielding march of time, episode 40
December 14, 2024
David and I were talking the other day about taking lessons as adults. A thing I really admire about him is that when he starts doing a new thing, and wants...
the slow and unyielding march of time, episode 39
June 30, 2024
One of my many fatalities of getting older has been my ability to travel casually. There were times in my life where, although I had very little money, I...
the slow and unyielding march of time episode 38
March 31, 2024
recently, my partner david bought tickets to a show at brooklyn steel and invited me to come along. i had a busy week, and didn't have a chance to check out...
the slow and unyielding march of time episode 37
December 31, 2023
There are so many businesses and services sending me emails i never asked for. Sometimes, i just delete all my emails. Other times i diligently click through...
the slow and unyielding march of time episode 36
September 30, 2023
my job is distributed, meaning people i work with live all over the country. this isn’t the first time i’ve had a distributed job, but this is the first time...
the slow and unyielding march of time episode 35
July 1, 2023
hello!!! it’s been long enough since i’ve written you all that substack has started sending me emails with titles like “4 creative ideas to revive your...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 34
April 9, 2023
we stopped at our fave local coffee shop this morning on our way to the subway; the barista asked us what we were up to today. “oh, going to the Brooklyn...
The slow and unyielding march of time | episode 33
February 2, 2023
hello hi, a brief programming note: i just got some new subscribers who don’t know me at all, and usually this newsletter is light and funny and focuses on a...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 32
January 15, 2023
I really love the ocean. I find giant bodies of water to be very calming, which I know is not quite the correct reaction to have to a writhing, teaming...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 31
October 15, 2022
Hello friends! Big news: I stopped watching all the Bachelor franchises! I don’t know if I ever actually wrote a whole newsletter about my love of reality...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 30
July 31, 2022
Yall! I am back! It’s been long enough that Paul has sent at least three newsletters (PAUL how do you write so much) (don’t stop I love it) and I got an...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 29
April 24, 2022
I think of myself as very independent, and very comfortable being alone with my own thoughts for long periods of time. I traveled by myself to Vietnam a few...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 28
February 27, 2022
Oh hey! It’s been a bit! I made it a goal to write more during these oppressively cold winter months and then I just … didn’t. I wish I had more discipline,...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 27
January 9, 2022
I was very fuzzy for the last couple months of 2021. My brain had gotten real bad — that’s how I described it anyways. It had become hard for me to take in...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 26
October 31, 2021
Hey friends, Paul has sent out TWO newsletters since my last one! There’s a new Bachelorette! It’s spooky season! Ted Lasso is over! I guess it’s been awhile...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 25
August 14, 2021
Shortly after my last newsletter, I made my first ever Out of Office reply for my email, logged out of my work computer, and spent the next week on a true...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 24
June 26, 2021
During the winter, as the walls continued to close around all of us and every day felt achingly the same, I was talking on the phone with my grandma and she...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 23
May 10, 2021
Content warning: death and grief. Please feel free to skip if that’s not your vibe right now. It’s been a tough few days. Last Friday, the morning started...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 22
April 15, 2021
A few years ago, when I decided I was tired of waiting for my friends to commit to plans and that I was just going to go to Vietnam and Japan by myself, I...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 21
January 30, 2021
Last Sunday, David and I set off to go snowboarding at Lake Placid. (Or in reality, David was going snowboarding and I was going to scream and fall a lot.) I...
the slow and unyielding march of time
January 17, 2021
GOODNESS I hope you are all awake and alive and well as one can manage, but also if you’ve figure out a way to sleep until groundhog’s day, well, I...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 19
December 20, 2020
Hello all my lil ducklings! I wanted to write again, faster this time, since my last missive was fairly down in tone and I'm feeling stronger (not...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 18
December 11, 2020
I've had a headache for, oh, about a week now. It has been ebbing and flowing, sometimes hiding deep in my sinuses until I get lulled into a sense of...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 17
October 30, 2020
I rarely rewatch videos on youTube; the one exception to that rule is the Tiny Fuppets, a bizarro Portuguese parody of the Muppet Babies. There's only a...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 16
October 7, 2020
I have meant to write a newsletter every day for the past ... two weeks? At least? And then something happens in the news or in my life and my brain turns to...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 15
September 11, 2020
I've been watching Star Trek: Voyager, a show I've wanted to watch since I saw a talk where Anita Sarkeesian named Captain Janeway as the best example of a...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 14
August 15, 2020
On and off for the past fifteenish years, I've volunteered at a reading and writing tutoring center called the Bureau of Fearless Ideas. (Formerly known as...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 12
July 10, 2020
Hey there, peach popsicles! I started this newsletter so that people could opt into casually keeping up when I left Facebook; how was I to know, way back in...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 11
April 17, 2020
I've always had vivid dreams -- I recall a stretch of time in childhood to early teens where I had both a string of nightmares that left me scared to sleep,...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 10
March 20, 2020
Yesterday was the first full day of spring, and it was 70+ degrees here in New York City. It was the first day I was able to break my self-imposed isolation...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 9
February 27, 2020
It has been too long since I last wrote you all, but life has been a true whirlwind. I got back from Argentina. Work has been brutal lately, as we've pushed...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 8
January 31, 2020
pardon any typos and the general lack of links in this missive — I’m writing on my phone in tinyletter’s very-much-not-web-responsive UI. I think this is the...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 7
January 3, 2020
A couple years ago, I went to a February cabin weekend. My housemates plan and host this cabin getaway every year, ostensibly for a birthday, but really (I...
the slow and unyielding march of time | episode 6
December 14, 2019
Last night, my housemates hosted a lil party in honor of their niece visiting from New Jersey. It was a very low-key affair; more of a group hang. Some...
The Slow and Unyielding March of Time | Episode 5
November 9, 2019
In case you were wondering why there are so many November birthdays, February is 9 months before November. HOWEVER I was 6 weeks early, so I was not a...
The Slow and Unyielding March of Time | Episode 4
October 27, 2019
On my recent trip to NYC, I was early for something. It was a hot, humid day; I was sweaty, but luxuriating in the free extra time to just wander around...
The Slow and Unyielding March of Time | Episode 3
October 16, 2019
Gritty is the mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers, a hockey team in the NHL, although to describe him in those terms is like describing Mt Rainier as "some...
The Slow and Unyielding March of Time | Episode 2
September 27, 2019
Last night, I watched the finals match of Aussie rules football, a game that is played on a giant oval (what?) field. All the fields are different sizes...
The Slow and Unyielding March of Time | Episode 1
September 14, 2019
Friday, as I waited to go through security at the airport, my brain registered a very tall woman standing near me, then another, and then realized that I...
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August 31, 2019
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