march 2024
hello! i'm back again. here are some things i liked in march of 2024 pod: New Angle: Voice. this is a podcast produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture...
february 2024
welcome to the experiment! here's some things i liked this month. game: stray (2022). been on my list for a while, and fortuitously went on sale when i was...
a transition
hi! been a minute, hasn't it? i'll be honest with you, friends: i thought this newsletter was done. it had been a bright spot in my life for a long time, but...
in this short Life that only lasts an hour
I ha
spark; stranger; scripture; sting
I went to a wedding earlier this summer. I'm in my 30s, so I go to a lot of weddings, but this one was special: it was the marriage of two people who I had...
the heat presses down equally everywhere
Hello my friends, Summer is my enemy; a long, hot season in which the world blooms around me and I determinedly huddle in my home. I am not a creature of...
Clever, stupid, short and long
Hello! One of the unexpected outcomes of my joining the pen cult is that I am writing more. Perhaps, you are thinking, this is in fact an obvious outcome of...
Weak at the Knuckles
Sometime in December I began to notice whispering in my house. My roommates were having conferences; murmured conversations in the kitchen, or gathered...
in the forest of the night
Hi! Happy new year! I've been thinking about aliens. After a relative drought year of reading, I've been consuming books like water thus far in 2022. A lot...
the act of upheaval
A thought experiment for you: close your eyes. No, leave them open actually, unless you have a screen-reader. Otherwise, just sort of--pretend you're closing...
sail away
I have been longing for winter. I know that the shorter, colder days are rough for a lot of people, but I have always had the opposite reaction: summers,...
You've got to pick up every stitch
hi hello I am an American who was raised in America, and as a consequence of which Halloween is sort of a big deal for me. Every year, we'd watch a Disney...
I saw something nasty in the woodshed
When I was a kid, I took voice lessons. It was an hour a week and my teacher lived far enough away that it didn’t make sense for my mom to drive home during,...
Whose house is of glass
Glasshouses. They combine three things I love: plants, architecture, and being indoors. Recently I was in Asheville, NC with family, and my mom and I visited...
oh baby, oh baby
When I was small, my neighbor Sarah was the coolest person I knew. She was 3 years older than me, lived one house over, and was an only child. She was the...
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
I am not a fan of capitalism, and the past year has not endeared it to me in any great way. I am a fan of science fiction, and as such a theme that I...
What is a life lived but an array of objects
I think about jewelry an awful lot for someone who mostly doesn’t wear jewelry. Partially this is a decorative arts thing and I DO like to look at the flashy...
Do I dare to eat a peach?
When you put stress- in front of a word it becomes a thing you are doing in reaction to outside stimuli and not because your brain sometimes actively works...
I’m out of practice at controlling my expression.
Earlier this year, I took part in a book exchange. The idea was that you responded to a friend’s post about the exchange, they gave you a name and address to...
oh hey
so. it’s been awhile, yeah? sorry about that. there have been some big changes and little changes in my life, as I’m sure there have been in yours. I’ve been...