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The Past Is Always Present
Thoughts on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Or: come back, Frances Perkins.
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You Are Here
Notes to Self on Easter/Passover/Ramadan in the Southern United States, 2023
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Let's Tell the Future
Winter Solstice and a Wicked Pack of Cards: Discovering Pamela Colman Smith
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Two Cranes at the Beach
Shussssh. Shusssh-SHUSSSSH-shusssshhh. Ssssssssh. The rhythm is endless yet different every time: that’s the part that’s easy to forget when I’m far from shore. My friend Paul and I drove a long way to stand here at the hurricane-frayed hem of North Carolina and watch
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The Ghost in the Wow
As I push my cart up and down aisles of plastic tchotchkes and brightly dyed fabric, I feel as if I’m floating through a dream. A voice calls from somewhere near the ceiling in the flat, declarative tone of all public announcements: Laverne, line one. Laverne, line one. The
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Practice Heads at the Hair School
a sideways reflection on the writing process
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The Rhetoric of Hope
Thoughts after watching a portrayal of John and Abigail Adams and the Continental Congress.
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Key Ingredients
Some thoughts on modernist murder, mud-brick ovens, and a sustainable life.
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Chesterton and Shaw: a Century-Old Tweet War
Some thoughts on keeping calm and keeping friends in frought times.
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When a Girl Fell from the Sky
...and the treetops looked like heads of broccoli.
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Classic Horror Picks
My top 10 list of scary things invisible and inescapable...
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Autumn Assurance
Pressing 'pause' on dystopias.