Activism
Try to Reduce Stress, Okay?
On chronic pain, the NIH, and being a "bad patient" and an advocate
Latest
Writing
In the Woods, In the Weeds, In a Cabin
Gratitude for a residency, looking forward to the year of Sinead, plus writing about inequality and goats and anxiety
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.
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