an invocation
As a recovering Catholic, I have a complicated relationship with spirituality. I do admit, though, that I enjoy, and sometimes even yearn for, the rituals...
baby love, my baby love
So, ya girl has just embarked on a new hyperfixation! I am, thanks to the Instagram algorithm, now the proud owner of a calligraphy pen holder, nibs, sumi...
artistic freedom
Hoooo boy, I’m out of practice! I have dropped the ball! Or, we could look at it another way: wow, it was so great to experience my totally planned end-of-...
dream on
I’ve never been great at keeping dream journals. Journal-journals, yes, sort of, depending on the era of my life, but I’m terrible at keeping up with...
breakup songs
Good god, I love a breakup song. Honestly, they’re so much better than love songs, so much more potent. And I say this as someone who’s been in a committed...
rant it out
It’s so odd to be seeing the conflict between the values of before and those of now. Specifically, I’m thinking of the “hustle and grind” culture and how it...
do nothing
I just started reading How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy after ages of it being on my “to read” list. Just twenty-six pages in, and I’m...
music songs
Whenever I get busy and overwhelmed, I kind of freeze up in my creative practices. I sleep in late, rather than getting up early enough to write. I swipe...
hungry hungry hippos
I just finished M.F.K. Fischer’s An Alphabet for Gourmets, which I would read nightly before bed over the past week. I got it some years ago from a pile of...
just. fucking. write.
Hello hello, friend. I’ve been slacking on this newsletter, but here I am nonetheless. Somehow, I got to the mental block stage of things, where the stress...
things are not what they seem
I just started a new job and have been meeting so many people over the last month or so. It’s one part big change because I worked at my previous school for...
strictly nostalgic
Did you hear the news? Hear ye, hear ye, the internet has announced that the one, the only, Bennifer is back, baby. Apparently many people have strong...
tuning in
Michael often teases me for being unobservant. It is true that I once, after three years of living in our home, looked up at the kitchen ceiling and...
spooky scary
Mary Shelley was nineteen when she wrote Frankenstein. That’s a fact that I’ve thought of fairly regularly for over a decade. I believe I was eighteen when I...
fun and games
Too often, I forget that this writing, this creativity, this art-making is not meant to be a bother, an experience of harrowing drudgery and militaristic...
why you so obsessed with me?
Okay, so lately I have been binge-listening to a podcast called The Dream that I heard of through the anti-MLM subreddit. Season one is about MLMs (multi-...
character studies
This girl right here is on summer vacation, my friend, and I’m not trying to brag, but I 100% understand if that announcement sounds gratuitous. Maybe it is,...
season songs
Although the Monterey area doesn’t have the kind of seasons an East Coaster would recognize, any local will tell you they exist, and that each is magical in...
writing into existence
Have we done today’s prompt before? I could ctrl-F through the newsletter archivces, but I also kind of don’t care because I like to write the weekly prompts...
do do
Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in a loop of endless self-improvement? Ultimately, I don’t think it’s a bad thing, to be driven by positive growth. In...