Goose Force

January 29, 2025

On goals.

January 7, 2025

New Year's resolutions? Well, New Year can keep them.

The Woman Who Always Knows What to Read

May 30, 2024

My most frequent fantasy.

Homeostasis and Protest

May 6, 2024

just some light housekeeping today

MoviePass, Substack

January 26, 2024

the future is an increasingly ominous portmanteau

Substack Winter is here.

December 23, 2023

Writers plan. Platforms laugh.

Times Squared

December 5, 2023

A travel diary.

December Diaries: Dec. 1st

December 1, 2023

Boilers and Other Marvels

The December Diarist

November 29, 2023

Can writing be fun again?

Hogwarts Legatees

February 9, 2023

You've got to be carefully taught yer a wizard.*

The Ferryman

February 2, 2023

Someone has to wash the mugs.

A Pile of Shame, Deconstructed

January 9, 2023

It isn't lost if I know which pile it's in.

Tuesday Writing Thoughts

December 27, 2022

This might become a feature. Or I might never do it again. You never know.

Why I'm going to write more in 2023

December 20, 2022

I mean, the other option is to *not* write more.

When the cold of winter comes.

November 11, 2022

What I've been reading and thinking about lately.

These days.

July 13, 2022

Hello, how are you? I’m fine. Considering everything. I can’t really sleep through the night, one of these days I’m going to crack another filling because of...

Calendar Girl

January 24, 2022

*tap tap* Is this thing still on?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot.

February 4, 2021

JonBenét Ramsay, Part IV

Interior lives and investigations in fishbowls

February 1, 2021

JonBenét Ramsay, Part III

The Limits of Narrative in a Limited Space

January 27, 2021

JonBenét Ramsey, Part II

Exterior: Suburbia

January 24, 2021

JonBenét Ramsey, Part I

On the threshold.

December 31, 2020

Well, that was a lot.

Love It Or List It

September 8, 2020

Another season of finished basements and unfinished lives.

Spare Parts

June 27, 2020

I keep thinking I should write about publishing The Spare! I have been thinking this since April 7th. Once a day, once every two days, I just want to write...

Diagnosis

March 28, 2020

Cancer Summer I

Fearing the Highlander Essayist

March 6, 2020

there can't only be one.

Being an Eccentric Collection of Literary Musings, Divers Opinions, and Occasional Exposition on Popular Cinema.

February 20, 2020

If you like me, you'll probably like this. If you like this, you'll probably like me.