Books
Stringing Beads and Writing Books
Does a necklace have a story logic?
Writing Process
Pain
Finishers are Always Monsters.
On the brilliant work of Claire Dederer and Jenny Offill and monstrosity
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.
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
Voice
Heart on My Sleeve
On tattoos and my Arkansas Grandmother's hallway and loving and fighting
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.
Writing Process
On Writing as Serious Play
Is writing a form of therapy, or is therapy a form of writing?