Creativity
How's your relationship with your art?
A very earnest series of questions in which I get all woo-woo about writing, and remembrances of my former colleague Peter Christopher.
Sonya Huber
Teaching
Writing with Young Afghan Women
A remote volunteer teaching opportunity and adding more things to a full plate
Love
Walking on Eggshells
An unintentionally holiday-themed post about anxiety and its solutions
Goats
Sad Duck, Happy Duck
A pause from goats to consider and fall in love with the poultry
Goats
On Minding Goats and Saying Yes
Actual goats, and a duck, and three dogs and three cats.
Memoir
Your Next Great Read
A slew of novels and essay collections and memoirs that I adore!
Detail
The Geology of Happiness and Anxiety
What is happiness anyway, and is it okay if I accumulate crumbs of it because I am always afraid and anxious? And squirrels and Pangea and volcanoes.
Covid
Nerd-Vegas! On Nuns and Masks
On monastic life, writing retreats, wisdom, and common causes
Love
Be Original? But How?
A letter to my nephew Nathaniel
Newsletter
Play, Mosaics, and Tangents
On María Lugones, Rebecca Makkai, and abandoning perfectionism
Voice
Heart on My Sleeve
On tattoos and my Arkansas Grandmother's hallway and loving and fighting
Covid
When is it Darkest?
On "It's a Wonderful Life" and Covid and Paxlovid and Addiction and Crowdsourcing