Volume 1, Issue 29 | Gifts
Three years ago, Livvy, Norton, and I celebrated Christmas together. None of us could make it home for the holidays, so we came up with a plan to buy...
Volume 1, Issue 28 | Season’s Farewells
If you’re heading anywhere for the holidays, have a great time! If you’re sticking around, so are we! We’ve got a few unofficial and official events planned,...
Volume 1, Issue 27 | Understanding
Livvy and I celebrated our ten year wedding anniversary this past week by putting on two, two-person, scripted, live radio-style shows. It was a deeply...
Volume 1, Issue 26 | Cardboardwork
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?...
