August 13, 2026
Which Face Is True
A wry grief-com about secrets, scandals, and gutted houses. Releasing March 16, 2027 (Inkshares) Anna and James. Their first meeting seemed fortuitous. On the…
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Essays on books, the writing life, small-town water, and the strange business of being a person. New notes land on the newsletter first.
May 28, 2024
The Sisterhood
Author’s note: I first published this post a year ago and have decided to repost it as my sisterhood will be gathering this week…
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April 25, 2024
Stuck in the Middle Ages
When did it start? This inability to get back on track, this failure to follow through, this…laziness? I have a million excuses. In my…
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April 23, 2024
Rubber Necking
A friend of mine told me a funny story the other day. She had found a condom in her teenaged son’s backpack. She…
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March 27, 2024
The Russian Part два (Two)
This was the hardest thing I had ever done in my life. My grandfather, the best man I had ever known and would ever…
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February 27, 2024
Cleanse encounters…
(This is a repost from a few years ago. Thoughts of summer are on my mind on this gray February day.) First, I rinse…
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The Russian- Part One
“Who was that?” I asked my mother after a stranger answered their phone. “Vika,” she replied, her tone suggesting it should have been obvious.…
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December 23, 2023
Snowflakes Falling
Snowflakes, snowflakes, falling, falling…. It whispers in my ear, a ghost of Christmas past, harkening back to a time when anything but a white…
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November 15, 2023
Pumpkin Pie
The road stretched ahead of us, the dark asphalt twisting like a snake through the grass. On each side, craggy chunks of red…
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