Kicking Snakes

I sent a couple tweets into the aether yesterday after not putting anything out on Twitter for about a month. Maybe it was because I’d just worked out and endorphins were careening through my central nervous system and my blood sugar was about to crash, but when I hit the button and sent them off … Continue reading Kicking Snakes

Where to Put the Work

It’s been three weeks since Tansy was killed. I Rambled about it a little, but I haven’t really written about it. I didn’t write much of anything for a while there. I logged out of every online account I could think of the day it happened and told myself I would take a week at … Continue reading Where to Put the Work

Important Bird News

This is an excellent thread that made me laugh uncontrollably for many, many minutes. I share it with you as a gesture of goodwill. Yours sincerely, Tiny Sky-Tyrant P.S. I’ve been working on my marsupial impressions, too.

Higher Education

I’m a hindsight junky. I’m always flipping through old journals and sketchbooks, trying to find a narrative through-line that I can string up and hang insights on like so much laundry. The weird contemplative timelessness of Quarantine—not to mention the exhaustive self-reflection that tends to accompany a breakup—has only encouraged this behavior. But it’s not … Continue reading Higher Education

Selves

Tonight I opened Twitter, exhausted from another long day of menial tasks laden with outsized emotional significance because they all have to do with moving, to find this tweet from Beck Tench.1 The thread that follows? I love it more than words can express. This is one of those moments where I wish there was … Continue reading Selves

Strange, Familiar Seas

Lessons from a man who swims in the sea every night—and then tweets about it.

The Trap

Tap dancing into the jaws of the iron maiden and right back out again.