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Volume 1, Issue 26 | Cardboardwork
December 8, 2024
Hahahahahaha, you think I have time to write a full issue of Paperwork this weekend? The weekend right before Livvy and I celebrate our ten-year wedding...
Volume 1, Issue 25 | Museum Crimes
December 1, 2024
If you celebrated Thanksgiving, I hope it was very nice! If you didn’t, I hope that was also very nice! Whatever you were up to, I hope you’re back from it...
Volume 1, Issue 24 | Order
November 24, 2024
I was out most of this week with a cold, and Livvy was out half of it with some mysterious other thing, but from Livvy’s and then Norton’s reports, and the...
Volume 1, Issue 23 | Playlist
November 17, 2024
This last week wrapped up The Company’s second quarter in operation. Our lease is now halfway through. We’ve grown so much, learned so much, had so much fun,...
Volume 1, Issue 22 | Beautiful Color
November 11, 2024
For many of us, for reasons both predictable and private, it was a momentous and strange and heavy week. News and sickness and apartness and realizations—a...
Volume 1, Issue 21 | Duplicates
November 4, 2024
Now that it’s suddenly seasonably cold and dark, you’re probably in the mood to do more things indoors, in some place with good heat, warm lighting, and good...
Volume 1, Issue 20 | Optimism
October 27, 2024
Years ago, when Livvy and I lived in Michigan, before we got engaged, we were eating lunch at her parents’ house, and a guest of theirs—an older guy, just...
Volume 1, Issue 19 | Ramps
October 20, 2024
One of the trees outside is turning red. The lines at Little Man no longer wrap around the block. Everyone’s wearing great sweaters. It’s a lovely time of...
Volume 1, Issue 18 | Hidden Intention
October 13, 2024
You learn some things when you pretend to be an art house movie theater. I’ll bore you with one of the details: when changing settings in serious film...
Volume 1, Issue 17 | Ready
October 7, 2024
I spent most of the last few days at a conference nearby, smiling at thousands of moms for a work thing. Never in my life have I smiled at so many women that...
Volume 1, Issue 16 | Summer’s End
September 29, 2024
Livvy was playing a fortune-telling-themed card game earlier this year—right around when we were getting started with The Company—and however it is that the...
Volume 1, Issue 15 | Hanging Out
September 22, 2024
As of halfway through this past week I’m back in the saddle, as they say. And, as they also say, riding horses is so much more fun than not riding horses....
Volume 1, Issue 14 | Hearsay
September 15, 2024
I believe I’m the first person I personally know that’s gotten a non-covid sickness this season, which I suppose makes me the canary. The warning sign....
Volume 1, Issue 13 | Generalized Reciprocity
September 8, 2024
Whether well, ailing, calm, eager, or boiling—at home, with a friend, in the mountains, or somewhere in the city—however and wherever (and whenever) it is...
Volume 1, Issue 12 | Reports
September 1, 2024
Hey stranger, Since starting The Company, Livvy and I have had a handful of long-distance friends pass through town who have seen the space, hung around, and...
Volume 1, Issue 11 | Meeting Up
August 25, 2024
Hey friends (and spies), It was an atypical week at The Company. No major events; Livvy was gone for most of it; and we had a trickle and then a flood of...
Volume 1, Issue 10 | Feeling Peachy
August 18, 2024
Ivan Ruiz-Knott: Do you ever walk around the neighborhood and wonder at things? The house with the beautiful flowers? A giant milk jug? All the good dogs?...
Volume 1, Issue 9 | Records
August 11, 2024
People ask us (The Management, which comprises Livvy, Norton, and me) how things are going with all of this, and it’s hard to answer because we aren’t...
Volume 1, Issue 8 | Starpower
August 4, 2024
Such a good week. Malika, one of Livvy and my dearest friends, was in town and got to meet so many of y’all; we heard so many affirming stories at Glint; and...
Volume 1, Issue 7 | Keeping Time
July 28, 2024
Hiya. Much occurred this week. Probably too much. But it was fun and the company was good. Maybe see you at Glint? —Ivan Happenings This week: Glint: Yes,...
Volume 1, Issue 6 | A Good Sign
July 21, 2024
Good week to you, kind subscriber! A sold out Marbling Workshop, a productive Worknight, and a PowerPoint Party with oddly perfect and then really...
Volume 1, Issue 5 | Heat Wave
July 14, 2024
Hope y’all have been staying cool out there. We installed a third AC just in time for this heat wave, so we’re keeping comfortable here. Lotta things this...
Volume 1, Issue 4 | Mascot
July 7, 2024
Salutations, fellow America-dwellers! We hope you all had a happy not-a-colony-anymore day. Livvy and I were in Massachusetts for a big family reunion on her...
Volume 1, Issue 3 | Cards
June 30, 2024
Howdy! This past week held three milestones for us: air conditioning, a storytelling, and cards. We’re quite chuffed. (We’re also quite chuffed that you’ll...
Volume 1, Issue 2 | Sound Check
June 23, 2024
Hey again! This week truly flew by. Without the pressure of major events, most of our time was spent taking care of chores, ordering more things for the...
Volume 1, Issue 1 | Open
June 16, 2024
Hey friends! Welcome to our very first issue of Paperwork, the official newsletter of The Company. On behalf of The Management (Livvy, Norton, and me), I...
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