First novel of 2024. (Okay, I started it in 2023.) Sweeping. Intertextual. Multiple POVs with distinct voices, cleverly interwoven. Feels like it’s in conversation with Matt Bell’s Appleseed. Favorite quote: “. . . she has found…
I love a good paradox and liminal spaces and thresholds. So I’m intrigued by a new old way to think about the transition between calendar years called the Rauhnächte, a way to actually find a minute…
The mattress guy told me, You need to get your process straight. And who doesn’t love shopping for a mattress and simultaneously being criticized? At least when bathing-suit shopping (an equally onerous task), the customer isn’t…
For years, like so many raising kids and working, where I might want to go and what I might want to see didn’t even cross my mind (see the photo above). But—How do you want to…
foot×note (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footnote) 1Before you start a blog, you ought to ask yourself why. Does the world really need another blog? Wouldn’t a podcast be better? And if you do decide there’s no way around…