Sonora 🌵🌞
MW at the gallery Turbulence! What a bouncy road! What joys and hard leaving 🛶 We drove the whole way down the coast with the car packed as full of five...
Moving /Violations ✖️
Okay Lovelies, First let’s welcome the newcomers 🥂 You make the place better just by turning up; a joy to have you here. But to business… An Invitation...
Emu Eggs 🥚
Lucca, Spring Dears, There are three big things we need to discuss right up front before we get to the goodies: 1️⃣ Image is alright! The community came...
Gains, losses 📈
Dear ones, 🧚🏻 I've just had the most exhilarating conversation with Ben Palpant for Rabbit Room: it's part origin story and part advice for new writers. It's...
Year in Review 2023 🤵🏼♂️
Dear friends, 2023 was a whopper, a walloper, as anyone whose been paying attention will have noticed. For most of my friends, for one reason or another,...
Give it away 🎁
Hello friends, Camp Casey, Whidbey Island By chance, by grace, and last minute, we were allowed to stay up at Camp Casey on Whidbey for the Thanksgiving...
Light saving 🔦
Well, it's broken. Remember when I fell on the stairs and thought I cracked a rib and while checking it out, they found my bursting appendix? Well I also...
Wise and Wherefore's 🫧
Dear friends, It's about to get wild over at ours as my school's beginning tries to time with my kids'. Before the year begins in earnest, then, here are a...
More light 🌤
Happy Summer, friends! We're adrift amidst a sea of changes around here: the new baby, a new leadership structure at the university, a new direction for our...
Addendum 🐣
She's here! Cicely Rose was born on April 10th, and she is healthy and happy and sweet as a peach. What a wonder! What a waiting! And how very worth it. I am...
Spirit in the Sky 🪘
Chers amies et amis, We have come through the worst of winter, which was, as ever in the Pacific Northwest, relatively tame. We've had our second to last...
Year in Review 2022
I used to watch a TV show as a kid called Beyond 2000, which imagined what the world would be like in the new millennium. We were, to put it mildly, both...
Under the Wire ☃
Alright friends, It looks as if there’s time for one last missive before my annual Year-in-Review post. We’ve just returned from a paradisal Thanksgiving on...
Oh, Britannia 🇬🇧👑
Beloveds, I was traveling in England during the last weeks of Elizabeth's reign; this is something that turns out to have been true, though there's no way I...
I'll fly away 🛫
Alright you lovelies, I write this on the morning of my departure for England with the study abroad group; I wanted to send an update beforehand because I...
Three to Get Ready 🛣
Dear friends, In a couple of days, my family will climb the proverbial staircase, look around in the blazing summer sun, inhale, and slide down the coast....
Online Reading TOMORROW 👨💻
Don't get too excited now. This is not the fulsome missive you might have expected (might even have deserved)--that is coming, and soon. This is merely the...
Sprung 🪺
My friends! Well the gallery show in LA was a hit! In one of those strange twists my life sometimes takes, I found myself at a bottle-service-only rooftop...
The up! The coming! 🧳
Dear ones, In a way, it's nice to have a bookend, a talisman, a fin at the end of a film. The first thing the pandemic cancelled for me was the launch party...
Candle smoke 🎂
Dear friends, Well, I got COVID the first week of 2022. Inauspicious beginnings, you might say, but I'm glad to be done with it (and glad I didn't have to...