POV: you are two raccoons in a trench coat, both of whom are trans
[Hello! Long time no newsletter; this has been for many reasons, but most of those reasons boil down to “My brain abruptly stopped being chill about sharing...
The Humble Vegetable
I have started volunteering once a week at a local farm stand. This is for many reasons — not least of which is I get a box of free vegetables in exchange...
Things I’ve Learned About Marriage Since Getting Married:
Every happily married couple on earth has a totally different experience of marriage from every other happily married couple on earth. This is because people...
The Last Gasp of Strawberry Season
Strawberry season is coming to an end this week. It’s one of the bright spots of living in Ohio, the way that for a handful of days in June, I have the...
All My Current Answers to All The Questions I Desperately Wanted Someone to Answer When I Was First Realizing I Was Trans
AM I TRANS? Yeah. NO BUT LIKE LISTEN: AM I TRANS? Enormously so, yes. Big time. Someday it’s going to feel ridiculous that you ever didn’t know. BUT HOW CAN...
Reasons I Have ADHD, According to a Selection of the Hottest Takes from the Last Thirty-ish Years:
I don’t have ADHD; I’m just lazy. I don’t have ADHD, I’ve just: spent insufficient time outdoors, watched too much television, played too many video games,...
Stop Posting Incorporated
You get home after a long day of work; you’re feeling tired, frustrated, maybe even a little stoned. You pull out your phone, look at it for a few minutes,...
Horticulture of English Ivy
[A note to trans readers of this newsletter: this particular issue of hyperfocus is, eventually, about the onslaught of horrific legislature that’s lately...
Just Keep Stirring
Do you feel UNHINGED? Like a DOOR somebody REMOVED from its FRAME and then threw down a long flight of STAIRS? Does THIS [short clip of a man checking the...
Variations on How It Feels Being Trans When Trans Issues Are In The News (A Non-Exhaustive List)
• Like listening to a 45-minute loop of car tires screeching on pavement, and feeling the same overload of adrenaline you’d feel if you were in an actual car...
In Our Old Haunts After The Vaccine
Hello. It’s nice to see you again — yes, it really HAS been a long time. What a wild year, am I right? Can’t say I’ll miss it, that’s for sure! I suppose I...
The Wrong Gospel of the Warm Gefilte
It’s still Passover — even when you’re not keeping it, it’s eight full days of guilt — so here’s a story about one of wildest days I’ve ever had at work,...
Superman Is Not Brave
My fifth grade teacher once wrote “Superman is not brave,” up on the board while we were all at lunch. I promise I don’t intend to bore you with the tales of...
Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht
[Or, for those not familiar with the Yiddish: Man Plans, and God Laughs.] It’s another weird pandemic Passover, which I find myself in the strange position...
It’s Cold At The Top of Bong Hill
So, let’s set the scene: it was February, 2008, when my shitbag boyfriend said, “Hey, you want to go camping with me this weekend?” (A note on the shitbag...