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Weird time to know history and like jokes.
April 7, 2025
I didn’t plan on writing about any aspect of the ongoing wrecking of America, which is why I haven’t written anything in a while. “Many people are writing...
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
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