Voice
Heart on My Sleeve
On tattoos and my Arkansas Grandmother's hallway and loving and fighting
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Covid
When is it Darkest?
On "It's a Wonderful Life" and Covid and Paxlovid and Addiction and Crowdsourcing
Unraveling
Fixer-Uppers and Best Decisions
On serial killers and Teddy Roosevelt and color guards.
Unraveling
Accompaniment and a Stolen Salad Bowl
On getting through crisis with the generous love of amazing humans.
Detail
How Are You? I am Barbie Disco Ball.
The question I can't answer. And glaciers and Annie Dillard and George Ella Lyon and Jane Jacobs and inductive reasoning and time.
Writing
Live Through This Carrying
On writing and on carrying what we can't write, on a light touch, on signals.
Voice
Writing the Emergency
On memoir and stenography and emergence.
Writing Process
On Writing as Serious Play
Is writing a form of therapy, or is therapy a form of writing?
Unraveling
Lemons, Contrecoup, and the Great Unraveling
Are you feeling it too? This terrible mixed metaphor involves citrus, poultry, sweaters, and car crashes.
Newsletter
Book Tour Thoughts, Days 4-6
On events and rest and ADHD and revolutionary coffeeshops and the whirlwind
Book Tours
What is a Bookstore Event For?
On having a reading with 5 people, one of them me.
Book Tours
Book Tour Thoughts, Day 2-3
On friendships stretching over decades, on grief and hope