I'm not here to make friends*
*unless
Green Tortoise Travelogue, 1992
edits, 2023
"I was put here to write, so I suppose that’s what I’ll continue to do."
a mini-interview with Kasai Richardson
up in the gloomy humid
my black seam bound by hand
Fire
walk with me? or, don't??
urgency
notebook entry
nothing compares
💔
marking time
+ a list of books I finished reading, January to June 2023
"what do you call the person who got the worst GPA in their PhD program but still defended successfully? Dr."
a mini-interview with Amy Silverberg
rejected
10k copies sold anyway
“making less happen and just letting things meander a little”
a mini-interview with Kevin Maloney
34.2628° N, 118.6123° W
plot point 1988/1989
clearing out the glove box
calls for submissions and an announcement of next Front Seat Office Hour
ethereality
a brief submersion
Get Rec'd
Mommy El Camino Style
Freefeeder at 25
looking back at a zine of the late 1990s
notebook
hot pink roses, long white hair, and manta rays
What do you think happened there?
approaches to the EXIT INTERVIEW
"chismosa by trade," "metiche by heart"
a mini-interview with Isabel Quintero
So you want to work with an editor...
or do you? I did. Here's how I went about it.
not a soccer mom
online dating in the '00s, strip clubs, and soccer mom cars
quinquagenarian-ity
more about books, a little about turning into a quinquagenerian
"I want you to stun me"
a mini-interview with author Corinne Manning
::accretions::
an ongoing project
Notes from the Death Class
Four Saturday mornings last summer I got deep in death
“If you want to say you were born here, lower your knees.”
a mini-interview with Jenny Sadre-Orafai
In a Brown Study
the beauty of the pained reverie
There are No Options Today
the Possibly/Maybe circuit that is tv/film options of books
Values
Why do I care?
Dusting Off the Dashboard
and opening the glovebox
Ambition
some thoughts
Glovebox Action
what the hell is in here
stun + thunder
equals 'astonishment'
Grieving
This shit is not linear.
In the Glovebox
A Friday snack before we get into the heavy stuff on Sunday
On Revealing/Not Revealing
Look at me/Don't look at me
Writing Chapter Six
Process
The Slog
The dredge, the weeds, the muck
Wednesdays of Hope
A sometime/mid-week pit stop
Yes/No/I don't know
On being in my long season of No
Before I Turn the Key in this Ignition
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