before the rain,
every bloom in the garden: stragglers ‘n’ survivors, all of us cheers to the return of the light. see you on the flipside, -m.
the only year-end list that matters
it’s finally here! direct from my garden’s recent past, in no particular order of ranking except that of the sun’s path across the earth’s sky, i hereby...
sentences
so, a lot has happened. is happening. will do so. in lieu of a long preachy thing about ... all the things, here are some sentences. (thanks to Ingrid...
the only year-end list that matters:
hi, in the business of culture-making, now is the time of year when publications release their “best of” lists. so many lists. really, like, enough with the...
light leaning, late october:
It was a season of death in a year of death in a culture bent on ignoring death, within a national body politic that was consumed with the gobbling up of...
one hundred and seventy-four
that's the amount of dollars i have spent on this email newsletter service in 2024. the last newsletter i sent out was... oh, hi, it was in January, the day...
The Last Fire Season is out today
hi, today is publication day for The Last Fire Season, my memoir. it's a book about fire and having a body on planet Earth right now. i am proud of it. yes,...
book events, bright and warm
hello from the redwood forest, where it feels dark at like 3:30pm even though i can plainly see, out my kitchen window, that across the gulch the sun is...
planting clover
hi, it's autumn. maybe winter? there was frost on the road down the hill today. my book comes out in deeper winter, in six weeks. january 2024. last month,...
veils
hi, i have two things to reveal to you, but "reveal" seems like a word that will get caught in sp*m f*lters. instead let's call it an unveiling, which also...
saturation
hi, it's me, yet another writer who neglected her newsletter for a while. what's new? the last time i wrote you i was announcing a book deal; today i...
gone green again
hi, some good things have happened. i'm in my hometown this weekend and this morning i was saying to my stepmom and one of my sisters that i really needed to...
King Lear
So there's this old writer joke, not unique, that when I meet someone and they as what I do and I say, I'm a writer, and they say, oh, would I have heard of...
chaos critters
The night of a lightning storm in August in California I woke up terrified, and I watched the too-close spears shatter the sky: Aries or Mars very upset,...
peddling
on Monday I had a premonition (anxiety) that i will be laid off. that i will be laid off this Friday, specifically. so this morning, anticipating further...
That first day,
when it's cool enough for a jean jacket and light scarf in the morning, when it's cloudy enough to wear eyeglasses outside instead of sunglasses, when all...
the dawn patrol
every morning, my dad gets up before sunrise and makes a lot of coffee, some of which he drinks immediately and some of which he reserves in a pint glass on...
before i finish my novel
At the moment every writer with whom I am friends, or at least close enough friends with that we can mutually confess this type of ego panic, is afraid that:...
pivoting
Dear you, The other day I was talking to someone at a barbecue and they were like, oh I must have accidentally unsubscribed to your newsletter, I never get...
everything is free now
Hi. When last we spoke ("spoke"), it was eight months ago. That's insane but also not that insane. A lot has happened. I looked back in my "sent folder" here...
