florilegia #15: what's up, august 2025
Some news! I’m delighted to announce that my weird Munchausen’s-by-demon (??) story will be included in Malarkey’s annual “Hellarkey” Halloween zine. Check...
florilegia #14.5: july album
July is a helluva month, but at least now it’s Leo season. My most insufferable time! Apologies in advance. did you know this July was Zachary Taylor’s 175th...
florilegia #14: current
The Maroon women on the lake’s fringes taught her to paddle a canoe and swim underwater for near three minutes without coming up, and most importantly how to...
florilegia #13: what's up, july 2025
Well, I’ve conducted my annual reviews of Dirty Dancing and Thelma & Louise (the latter augmented by news of Michael Madsen’s recent death), so it must be...
florilegia #12.5: june album
Midsummer has come and gone, and the days are nearly endless. Wishing you cool drinks in your hand and green leaves over your head. a forest pool;...
florilegia #12: common bones
Commonplacing has become popular again recently, and of course a florilegium is a type of commonplace book. On the other hand, Susanna Clarke says: In the...
florilegia #11: what's up, june 2025
We’re halfway through the year, and I don’t know about you, but the year is starting to catch up to me. I took advantage of May being a long month (this...
florilegia #10.5: may album
Have you ever heard the phrase “social summer”? Yeah, I rebuke it too. Anyway: happy summer to the rest of the Northern Hemisphere; can it please stop...
florilegia #10: behind weird florida
“…meaningful connection to landscape is a human birthright.” Leodrune, Occult Needlecraft I know what you’re thinking: isn’t all Florida “weird Florida”? As...
florilegia #9: what's up, may 2025
Greetings from my hometown, as I’ve been in Florida this weekend for my grandmother’s memorial. I’m not quite typing this from the beach, but I can see the...
florilegia #8.5: april album
WELL has it truly been the cruelest month for everyone? Probably. But at least now the Pollen Seasons are upon us! florals? for spring?? etc. the kitty baby;...
florilegia #8: on profanity
This past winter, two slices of media tailored to my interests dropped almost simultaneously: the Netflix show American Primeval and the album Profanation of...
florilegia #7: what's up, apr 2025
If you’re a Book World person, you probably read The Atlantic’s examination of Meta’s use of LibGen to feed their large language models. Yes, some of my work...
florilegia #6.5: march album
Talk about the MARCH of time, huh? Eh? Sigh. the tiniest art critic; local opinions; a real steal. coffee so strong it’ll make you see God; just the way...
florilegia #6: on this day
Whatever else Mormonism gave me, it made me an inveterate journaler. The church loves journals, such that more than one LDS president has instructed members...
florilegia #5: what's up, mar 2025
What’s this, the beginning of the end of the first quarter? Why am I talking about first quarters like I’m a small business? The only quarters I’m interested...
florilegia #3.5: february album
February photo tour! (“dump” sounds so inelegant, don’t you think?) in a Schenectady snowstorm, two oases: unexpected windowsill citrus, and a casserole...
florilegia #4: the florida project
In 2017, Sean Baker’s film The Florida Project came out. It was titled after the code name for the 1971 project that became Walt Disney World. Pass-A-Grille...
florilegia #3: what's up, feb 2025
Man, what is up? January proceeded in its usual way, that is to say, I feel like a cartoon character who’s been sucker-punched so hard they almost topple,...
florilegia #2.5: january album
In an effort to move away from both using Instagram habitually for fun and relying on Meta products for Engagement (TM), I present: the January Album, some...