will your god accept me in my black and white?
Hi y'all! How’s February treating you so far? I took a little two-day jaunt down to Richmond, where I saw some family and friends, wreslted with several...
all the broad sky was grey
hello and welcome to the newsletter This is going to be a brief one, friends, because to be quite honest I forgot to write it. Let’s see what I can scrounge...
being woman too loudly
HI! This is me, charging in the new year and also your inbox. I have mixed feelings about New Year’s. It’s sort of the Las Vegas of holidays, isn’t it? All...
even the vegetables don't like him
Hi! Welcome! I’ve had a rough several weeks, anxiety-wise, and two things have helped more than anything else: heavily restricting my own access to social...
awesome, welcome to tragedy
Greetings! Come in! Happy Thanksgiving, if that’s a thing you celebrate! I am a Thanksgiving scrooge, but will be spending the day with good friends I don’t...
I'm already touching the lizard
Hi! My friends! It’s cold and rainy, I have my house to myself, I got a full night’s sleep last night, and I’m still riding that election high. Feels good,...
petals on a wet, black bough
hi! I love October. Halloween is a good time, but for me it’s the cherry on top of the wonder that is October. I love to see the leaves change, and begin to...
control is not convinced
hey hey I love trains. I love slow travel in general, honestly, and if I had all the time and money in the world I would travel exclusively by rail and boat....
arms outstretched
3-2-1 let's jam I’ve never been the kind of person who can consume in moderation. I’m not great at pacing myself when I have a pan of brownies, and I’m...
in a more enlightened time
yo yo here we go here we go My social media vacation/mental health break has pretty much come to an end, although I’ve been unfollowing and in general paring...
down comes the night
hello! I hit a point recently where a lot of things piled up at once, many of them bad, and all I wanted was to find myself on a deserted island somewhere,...
that can't be good for the table
hi hi depositing bon mot in your inbox like I spent last week with family in Memphis, Tennessee, which is where my dad hails from. It had been over 7 years...
grinning through my teeth
hi friends! This past weekend, I made the train journey up to NYC, for time with pals and to see the broadway musicalization of perfect Don Bluth movie...
let me drive my van into your heart
hi! My birthday was last week, so I took the day off work and went to the aquarium with the goal of seeing every single shark. I think I did it! It was a...
honey I'm still free
hi I’m already tired of summer. I don’t know if I’ve just grown weak in my old age or this summer really is as bad as it feels already, but the heat is...
so throw your pedestal of stone in the forgetful sea
yo! If you were a kid of a certain age in the US in the 90s, chances are you found yourself enrolled in the Book It! program. It went like this: you got a...
just hang with me and my weather
hey pals! Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the television show I would marry were it legal to do so, has been airing 2 episodes a week for the past three weeks, and I am...
tell me what it is to be quiet and yet still breathing
hi hi Free Comic Book Day was last weekend, a truly insane series of hours in which I interact with more people than ideally I’d ever see in person, and so I...
Let the statues crumble
hey. hey. hey. It’s me, your pal. First things first: you’ve watched the Last Jedi teaser trailer, yes? I’ll wait. Did I stand in my kitchen shaking for 45...
I'm in the middle of some calibrations
greetings, humans Mass Effect Andromeda came out two weeks ago, and since then I have been living and breathing the Andromeda Galaxy.It’s a game that’s...