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Open Your Gift
I have not been writing to you, but I have been writing. Every morning for the past couple of months, I open a medium-sized journal bound in yellow…
Dec 23, 2023
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September 2023
Of Sidequests and Souvenirs
Somehow, it’s been three weeks since I got back from my trip. They’ve been eventful weeks, every crack in the calendar filled with recordings and side…
Sep 12, 2023
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August 2023
The Archivist’s Welcome
When I last wrote you, I was on the precipice of a week of singing daily evensong services with the choir of All Saints’ Beverly Hills, first in…
Aug 16, 2023
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The Worst Chorus in Worcester
I didn’t sleep on the plane. Not more than a few minutes, total. This didn’t come as a huge surprise. I had hoped that maybe, since it was the end of a…
Aug 7, 2023
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July 2023
Now streaming: THE MIRROR GAME
I had a novel experience yesterday: my therapist started our session by telling me how much she’d enjoyed my movie. It was actually a pretty springy…
Jul 29, 2023
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Social Desserts
Monday before last, I made a cake. I’d been feeling lousy, emotionally speaking, and hoped baking might be a mood booster. Hours later, I unmolded a…
Jul 3, 2023
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June 2023
Familiar Vacation
What I ate and who I saw in Oaxaca, Mexico
Jun 6, 2023
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April 2023
The Fickle Appendage
A love/hate letter to my purse
Apr 25, 2023
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March 2023
A lonely poem on a scrap of paper
About six months into the life of this newsletter, I sent out a one-off Labor Day missive that was a kind of observational poem. I’d spent a chunk of…
Mar 28, 2023
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See If It's Raining
Enduring advice from Mama Berenstain
Mar 8, 2023
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Mama Berenstain knew
Mar 8, 2023
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December 2022
2022 is a Pile of Used Books
If you’d asked me a week ago, I’d have told you that any end-of-year missive I wrote would be a bulleted overview of the year past. The movie, the new…
Dec 31, 2022
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