I sometimes forget that not every post has to be introspective and existential. It’s okay to lighten things up and not be so damn serious all the time. In that spirit, I’ve been toying with writing about style and what good style means to me for a while now. I’ve been interested in style, and…
Category: Family
10 Things I Think I Think on August 4, 2024
It’s August, the peak of my Hot Boy Summer. Last summer, I went on an Italian adventure that was accompanied by a Fool’s errand. This hot and sticky summer has been all about a return to Self and a restoration of clarity and balance in my life. Virgos need both to be happy, so this…
You Can Always Go Home Again
I just returned from a week-long vacation in New Hampshire with M. I hadn’t been home in at least two years, maybe longer. It feels strange calling New Hampshire “home” because I haven’t lived there full-time since 1992. But New Hampshire IS home to me and always will be. Why is that? Why do I…
The Unreliable Narrator
Every reader begins a story in good faith, suspending disbelief and accepting the narrator’s portrayal of events at face value. The reader’s understanding is limited to what the narrator chooses to disclose and the narrator’s subjective feelings about the story’s characters and their encounters. There’s no reason for the reader to doubt what the narrator…
My Dearest M.
I found this today while going through old notebooks and journals of mine. I’m retyping it here in case it gets lost or destroyed. Paper is so unreliable. I wrote this on the airplane two days after you were born, when I was on my way to see you and hold you and breathe the…
Photophile
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”– Dorothea Lange “You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”– Joan Miro When I was 9 or 10,…
Hello, 2020
And so a new decade is upon us. We call them decades and give them weight because someone decided that 10 years was the right amount of years to bunch together and deem significant. I think it began with Pythagoras. His followers started a cult that worshipped numbers, and believe it or not, they actually…
I’m Back
After an almost 10 year blogging hiatus, with a great deal of joyous/heart-breaking/incredible/incredibly shitty life experience in between that will serve as content for this renewed self-absorbed excursion of mine, I’m back to blogging. Why? Why bother? Why now? A lot of reasons, but the biggest one is that I need to write like some…