Not much has changed in the last two years since I wrote Family Recipes. I am 37, I still haven’t run a marathon, and I have kept writing things down. But also everything has changed since I wrote that. My grandma has since passed away. Last week Friday, my grandma passed away. She passed away. […]
poetry
Sister ship
Straight up the alley Old door, make a left. Electrical pole holds the power of religious conversion, musical marketing, lost pet finding. Left on Bridge. Homework crumpled, flat plastic bottles, each all halfway done, whole. What about the resin project? He might be late for work. Another left. But it is not bulk pick up. […]
Rising Tide – 2022 April
Welcome to the April issue of Rising Tide, a monthly digest of things I deem worth sharing. Enjoy my recommended books, blog posts, podcasts, music, products, and more. 1. If you have followed this blog for long enough, you will know that I am a big fan of e e cummings and read his poetry […]
Rising Tide – 2022 March
Hey, hey! Happy Spring! Welcome to this month’s issue of Rising Tide! If you have been here before, thanks for returning. If this is your first time, welcome! Rising Tide is a digest of things I deem worth sharing. Enjoy my recommended books, blog posts, podcasts, music, products, and more. 1. Cameron Maria Machado is […]
In this small, sunny space
It is Saturday morning at duck-rabbit, the coffee shop up the street from my house. The tunes of Yussef Dayes play in the background, the subtle bustle of folks come and go, and I sit here in this small, sunny space and write. I jot down a couple of lists: a weekly to-do, meal plan […]
Rising Tide – 2021 November
Welcome to another edition of Rising Tide, a digest of things worth sharing! Enjoy this month’s list of books, blog posts, podcasts, music, and more! 1. NPR recently unveiled “Books We Love,” previously known as the NPR Book Concierge. Books We Love is an interactive reading guide with book recommendations galore! Books are categorized by […]
Rising Tide – 2021 October
Welcome to another edition of Rising Tide, a digest of things worth sharing! Enjoy this month’s list of books, blog posts, movies, music, and more! To watch 1. How many more books will you read in your lifetime? As an avid reader, this feels like a scary question. (Don’t blink, or you’ll miss the few […]
Rising Tide – 2021 September
Welcome to another edition of Rising Tide, a digest of things worth sharing! Enjoy this month’s list of books, blog posts, quotes, music, and more! To read 1. It seems quite appropriate to start of this month’s collection this quote, which is a nod to part of the reason why I do this whole blog […]
Write something.
Write something. Then improve it. Then write something else. Repeat this process until you have a post. Then post it. Then repeat this process. There’s no such thing as writer’s block. There’s simply a fear of bad writing. Do enough bad writing and some good writing is bound to show up. And along the way, […]
Rising Tide – 2021 August
Wait, what? Rising Tide, is it really you? Indeed, it is! Welcome back to Rising Tide, a (formerly, weekly) digest of things worth sharing! While it has not surfaced on this website since late 2019, this August has been a month too chuck full of rabbit holes to pass up an opportunity to share some […]