“Weird” Might Save America
A wordsmith’s take on why, and how you too can help
Preparing for the Next Market Crash
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble
My Kind of People
Everyone loves a personality test
Nine Lives Exits the Nazi Bar
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night
If We Could Talk to the Animals
“Can we keep him?” “No.” “But it’s a TALKING DOG!”
The Dog Days of Summer
An old dog, a new puppy, paralysis and growth
A Novel, a Wedding, and Some Heavy Petting
Plus some library- and publishing-related addenda
The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence
With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many disabled people have always understood
Ideas in Conversation with Each Other
On the long and the short of fiction writing
Breasts of Burden
Don’t get excited, there’s no titillation here
I’m Not Sorry
I'm just drawn that way
Learning to Uncurl
Can I reclaim any part of my youngest, happiest self?
A Necessary Grace
On learning to manage anger in the aftermath of abuse
Memory Is a Double-Edged Sword
Losing it still felt like cutting out my heart
Elon and Me
On identifying the autism-to-asshole pipeline
Big Talk
In which linguistics teaches me something surprising about people
Everything Old Is New Again
Including this newsletter, and me