Even You Leave

What does it mean to be a steward of something or someone in decline?

Population: Us

I fear I am admiring the problem, thrilling to ever more accurate descriptors that tell me precisely how and why I’m locked in this unfulfilling spiral, rather than taking steps to change my behavior.

Heroics

“You put [a hero] in a bag and he looks like a rabbit, like a potato.”

Make Haste Slowly

In a chapter of Always Coming Home titled “Long Names of Houses,” Le Guin writes: “It is hard for us to conceive, harder to approve, of a serious adult person not in a hurry. Not being in a hurry is for infants, people over eighty, bums, and the Third World. Hurry is the essence of … Continue reading Make Haste Slowly

The Infinite Carrier Bag

Ursula K. Le Guin’s written worlds, and the ways they bring us back to ourselves.

Perfectionism, Process, Patterns

How do I write about talking about how writing is hard?