closing time
so long and thanks for everything t When I started this newsletter on substack in October of 2020, I had no idea if it would stick or not. I tend to take on...
living on video
when the past meets the present It is 3am and I am sitting in my darkened living room watching grainy videos of my children as babies. I found some old VHS...
looking so long at these pictures of you
but always just breaking apart this is how you remind me Sometimes I sit down to write a newsletter with no idea what I am going to write about. I just know...
to all the record stores i've loved before
an ode to record stores Looney Tunes Records and CDs I went record shopping by myself last week. I don't do a lot of things on my own, especially when it...
30 years of sarah mclachlan's fumbling towards ecstasy
one last 30 year remembrance Due to technical glitches and a little spacing out on my part, I missed this wonderful essay by Matthew Lawrence. This is an...
a compendium of albums turning 30 in 2024 (part 5)
a collaborative effort celebrating the albums of 1994 Today is the final day of this project. Thanks again to everyone who contributed. These were such a joy...
feeling kind of blue
on weezer's blue album on the occasion of it turning 30 When my son was 11, he latched onto two things; the guitar and Weezer. Weezer (The Blue Album) was...
1994: a compendium of albums turning 30 in 2024 part 4
a collaborative effort celebrating the albums of 1994 Hello, and welcome back to 1994 week for some more wonderful guest essays. Part 1/Part 2/Part 3 Sparks...
a compendium of albums turning 30 in 2024 part 3
a collaborative effort celebrating the albums of 1994 Welcome back for Part 3.We've got some really excellent stuff for you today. Part 1, Part 2. They Might...
1994: a compendium of albums turning 30 in 2024 (part 2)
a collaborative effort celebrating the albums of 1994 Welcome back for Part 2 of this project. You can read part 1 and the introduction here. Today we first...
1994: a compendium of albums turning 30 in 2024 (part 1)
a collaborative effort celebrating the great albums of 1994 90s nostalgia is so great that it feels sometimes that the decade is still with us in a way, so...
update!
where i'm going, where i've been My hiatus (or as I like to call it, my newsletter nap) was intended to only be a couple of weeks but it has stretched into...
the woman who is my country
envisioning a country that cares She was already in tears when she walked into the waiting area. I caught sight of her as I was finishing up paperwork from...
coming up for air
a betrayal I do not mean to write this. I do not mean to come off of a hiatus that was to last at least a month. But here I am, needing to write, needing to...
and i feel fine
it's the end of the newsletter as you know it Well, not the end. But a respite, at least. Next week I will publish about ten essays written by other,...
finding joy 2/12
opening up the floor Last week was an absolute blur. I don't know where it went. I didn't do anything spectacular, but I did do a lot of cleaning, purging,...
stay gold
a true tale of rival gangs and growing up stay gold, ponyboy [while i am working on putting together a big collaborative thing for this newsletter, please...
finding joy 2/5
here comes the sun a sunny walk I am going to be honest and tell you the last week was not a good one! I was in a deep funk for most of it because we had...
george thorogood and the 46 year grudge
mad to the bone persona non grata I’m not the kind of person to hold grudges. In fact, I’ve only had three in my life and they are all long-held and still in...
three years on
learning/growing growth/sunlight Today is the third anniversary of the day he left me and I am better now than I was before. I will mark this day...