Politics
Yesterday, I was pruning some hazelnut bushes that have gotten out of control. The pruning book said to do this in “early spring,” and January might be too early, plus I know somehow hazelnuts fertilize in January. Sorry, Mother Earth. I was using a neat but old electric plug-in chainsaw
Unraveling
And of knowing your own mind
Activism
Or something like that.
AI
How are you setting them? What others are you aiming for?
Detail
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.
Voice
On tattoos and my Arkansas Grandmother's hallway and loving and fighting
Covid
On "It's a Wonderful Life" and Covid and Paxlovid and Addiction and Crowdsourcing
Unraveling
On serial killers and Teddy Roosevelt and color guards.
Unraveling
On getting through crisis with the generous love of amazing humans.
Detail
The question I can't answer. And glaciers and Annie Dillard and George Ella Lyon and Jane Jacobs and inductive reasoning and time.
Writing
On writing and on carrying what we can't write, on a light touch, on signals.
Voice
On memoir and stenography and emergence.