may 2024
hi pals! i had carpal tunnel surgery on my dominant hand at the beginning of the month, so i spent a lot of time sitting on my sofa with my hand elevated on...
april 2024
hello again mes amis! here are some things i enjoyed this month. read: Death in the Spires* by K.J. Charles. i’m a huge fan of charles, who predominantly...
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
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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...