Creativity
Creative Process as Yard Sale
What a gleeful mess it is
Creativity
Activism
On Violence and Resistance
Taking notes from Bandy X. Lee
AI
We are the Messy Miracle
Talking and Not Talking with Students about AI, about not being computers, and the Shadow Syllabus revisited.
Pain
Finishers are Always Monsters.
On the brilliant work of Claire Dederer and Jenny Offill and monstrosity
Voice
The Sand Mandala of Writing
On letting a book go
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.
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