• windows

    Whoever leads a solitary life and yet now and then wants to attach himself somewhere, whoever, according to changes in the time of day, the weather, the…

  • look out kid, don’t matter what you did

    Ah get born, keep warmShort pants, romance, learn to danceGet dressed, get blessedTry to be a successPlease her, please him, buy giftsDon’t steal, don’t liftTwenty years of…

  • room of one’s own

    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Virginia Woolf, in chapter one of A Room of One’s…

  • shitty chess

    chats with a friend “God navigating partisan political dynamics is like being a helpless child trying to negotiate a compromise between what they need to be able…

  • And So

    And so the saying goes A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a tired rhyme But…

  • hannah & francesca

    some quick thoughts on the Times article-spurred Ballerina Farm Discourse, Francesca by Hozier, and of course Dante. If Hannah Neeleman, Ballerina Farm, doesn’t make it to Heaven,…

  • hope and scope

    Does hopelessness come from having knowledge that extends beyond our scope of influence?