A Linotype in the Rain
I googled myself the other day. (Everyone does it. Fewer of us admit it.) What came back wasn’t a headshot or some LinkedIn ghost of a former job, it was Gene Gable, writing about me in 2008. For five years…
Writing
The Comment Is the Sale
I read an essay in June called “The Wound Is the Product.” Robert Malone wrote it. He’s mostly writing about people with subscriber lists and donation buttons, and his argument is that being wronged has quietly become a business model.…
How Does the Right Hand Know What the Left Hand Is Doing?
I was wiping down the kitchen counter. My right hand was sweeping along in that lazy figure-eight motion you don’t think about, heading straight for a mason jar. Before I registered the jar existed, my left hand reached over, picked…
My Most Invasive Garden Pest
Roadie came to us at four weeks old, the son of a local feral female. We snagged him early and weaned him ourselves. He was one of three kittens. The other two didn’t make it. A raccoon found them a…
My Husband
I’ve started keeping a tally, which is the surest sign a thing has caught my curiosity and won’t quit. The phrase is “my husband.” Women here say it constantly. My husband put up the fence. My husband won’t touch squash.…
Old Dog, New Tricks (Sort Of)
The old adage about teaching old dogs new tricks doesn’t hold up well around here. I’ve spent my whole working life learning and adapting, though not in the way you might picture. I’m not the one who writes the elegant…
The Loudest Version Wins
I read something this morning that made me close the laptop and go outside. It doesn’t much matter what it was, which is sort of the point. A take, delivered with complete certainty, about something the writer clearly hadn’t turned…
My Frogs Are Back
The frogs are back. They started singing in March, same as the last two years, and the pond greeted five or six of them — sometimes closer to ten when I count carefully and they cooperate by holding still. The…
2015-2016 Trip – September 2016
September 2016 of our yearlong cross country adventure.
2015-2016 Trip – August 2016
August 2016 of our yearlong cross country adventure.