diversion: Mudhoney (revisited)
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. diversion (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition): The act or an instance of diverting or...
cannabis charcuterie board, book talk, & Prison Library Project book drive, all in one
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. If you’re in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 28th, you’re 21+, and you like talking about books and ouid: RSVP here Special...
revival
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. the monstera in my office enjoys life “A new lease on life.” First of all, why a lease? I can’t own my life? Still, the phrase...
covid notebook
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. a scene from a covid bed I couldn’t have scheduled a better week for having covid. Not that this bout with covid, my second,...
animal joy
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. When I wake up some mornings, it takes a few minutes before I remember all the bad things. It’s not that fascism is...
eye-soft notebook entry
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Sorry for the late email~there was an unscheduled snafu with Buttowndown (the newsletter platform) last night. 90% of my...
in a relationship with dating shows
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Perhaps out of the sheer need to look away from all the horrible news pouring out of every screen, I’ve found myself watching ....
one page
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Chapter Sixty-Two, from Hollywood Notebook by Wendy C. Ortiz, pub. Northwestern University Press
surviving
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. To access the full archive of MEC, from March 2023 forward, with newsletter topics ranging from writing life to ambition to...
notebook entry
Welcome back to Mommy’s El Camino. Subway station, July 2025. Photo by my kid. 7/18/25 I took this notebook with me all the way to New York and never opened...
summer break
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. June 28, 2025, Los Angeles, CA Summer break, as in, a break from the everyday firehose of bad news? Not quite. Summer break, as...
what I read, January-June 2025
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. What’s it like, living in Los Angeles in summer of 2025? It’s noticing any vehicles that look suspicious and wondering about...
harmony/discord
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Today’s post was going to be a list of the books I’ve read since January, with some commentary and quotes. But then yesterday I...
arguing with my dead father
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out into the streets this weekend and this past week…and thanks to everyone who made...
take heart
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Los Angeles, 6/7/25 Support Jail Support in LA, a grassroots collective dedicated to supporting anti-oppression work in Los...
here and there
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. banana leaf A friend suggested I was on book tour because I mentioned I was going to New York in July. This doesn’t feel like a...
three rooms
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Sunday involved an urgent care visit for my mother (all is okay now), so here we are, a Monday newsletter this week. ::: three...
sentences
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. SENTENCES FROM PROJECT JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2024 TO MID-MAY 2025 I have memories that feel like if I say them, touch them, they...
lovely day
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. It’s Friday. I missed Sunday, or, rather: I took Sunday off. Today, May 16th, is my birthday. Please buy my three books. Get...
this rich life
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. If you’re in or near Chicago, or have friends there: Chicago! Come on by. Friday, 4/25/25 In the pool first thing in the...
