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The way back to Erin: Claribel's music and Irish pathos (part 1, likely)

HI. I missed y’all. It’s been eons, I know, but the last several months have been… hard, for multiple reasons, some of which you can probably surmise from...

Changing of the seasons: a public talk, a new job, and other miscellaneous updates

October 20, 2024

Hey all! Every time I start writing one of these missives, I think it’s been too long since I wrote the last one, and surely this will be the time I get back...

Big discovery: I found another Claribel byline!!

August 20, 2024

Hi!! I missed y’all. And boy, do I ever have a find to share with you today… One of the things I tried and failed to track down during my giant England...

Dispatches from my bookshelves

Hi all! Conference prep is keeping me busy and will be for a hot minute here, but I wanted to pop in and share a few of the books I’ve finished lately —...

What makes a cedar waxwing sing

Hey all! I’d been casting about for a good newsletter topic, and I’m still working on a few more detailed ideas, but in the meantime I found this story...

Literally just a bunch of food recommendations

Hello again! Let’s do something lighthearted this time. I mentioned in my last email from the TinyLetter platform that I was in Scotland at the time. It was...

a room of her own

I’m writing this update from my new desk. New to me, that is - it’s actually an Edwardian-era English-made writing desk that I bought off Facebook...

Testing, testing...

Hello again, everyone! Hopefully you saw my prior email about having to migrate off TinyLetter. If not, and this is how you're finding out, I promise it's...