Oh, hi! Here is a long term project I’ve been working on about long term projects:
And here are some regular old blog posts about being a person in the world:
Broken, Lost, Tossed, Found
All Hail Emily Dickinson, the Quarantine Queen
Pandemic Parenting: A Hair Story
In Praise of Terrible Dresses
Everything is Made Up Anyway
And: Profile header lettering by the wonderful Sam Zabell ❤️
As I write this, it’s the week of Thanksgiving, that wonderful and strange American holiday when everyone cooks for days, eats way too much, and then sits around groaning, “Why did we eat so much?” …
Earlier this week, we asked you to re-imagine a piece of writing, or a moment from your life — or both! As always, the results were thoughtful, smart, and surprising.
Some of you imagined what would have happened had your life taken another turn:
Many writers claim to hate revision. Which, with all due respect, is the nuttiest thing I’ve ever heard. Personally, I often feel like I write just so that I can get to the blessed stage of revision. All that rereading! All the noodling around, removing a word, adding it again…
As Anaïs Nin famously wrote, “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.” For so many of us, writing is about making things work out a little bit better than they did in real life. For this week’s #WriteHere we asked what days you’d like to…
It can be hard to prioritize writing. There’s always something more urgent vying for your attention. Yes, I’m looking at you, giant pile of laundry waiting to be put away. …
Recently we asked: Why do you do this wild thing called writing? And wow, a lot of you chimed in to share why you write. The responses are so thoughtful and fascinating that it’s well worth reading all of them (over 100 as I compile this!), …
Does writing make you notice more things, or does noticing more things make you a writer? I’m not sure there’s really one answer, but I do know that being a writer can help a person to work those noticing muscles, to learn to see stories in strangers or overheard snippets…
It’s the season for everyone’s low-stakes hot takes on who loves autumn the most. (Spoiler alert: It’s me! But I liked it before it was like a THING, I SWEAR.) Forgive this very Eastern-Woodlands-of-North-America-centered take, but where I am, this is a season of change, a season that reminds us…
Sometimes there are things that need to be said, complicated emotions you just have to get off your chest. But also, sometimes that’s more for you than for anyone else. Voilà, the power of writing. This week, we suggested writing a letter to someone you despise. (None of you wrote…
