Dear Darling Ones, On Monday, Jason Kottke announced he was taking a sabbatical from his 24-year-old blog. This threw me for a loop. Kottke was one of the first blogs I ever read in my…
Browsing Category Writing
Thanks for the Tip
Dear Amy, Hi. Just so you know I’m writing to you specifically, let me quickly list all the Amys you are not. You are neither of the two tea lady Amys. You are not my…
On the Boards
Hello Darling Ones, I’ve been reading Nichole Perkins’ essay collection Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be, which is charming the daylights out of me. Despite being fiveish years younger than I am…
Today I Deleted Two Exclamation Points & Other Tales of Derring-Do
Hello Darling Ones, Earlier this week I read a frustrating and puzzling true crime book about a 50+ year-old murder at Harvard. The entire time I read the book I kept shouting, inside my head,…
‘This Story Would be Better if You Were Funnier’
Hi Darling Ones, One of my Tea Lady friends is taking a class at The Loft, which means I got to share with them my all-time favorite piece of criticism I ever got. It’s not…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Some Thoughts from the Well-Rested
Hi Darling Ones, Added: I am slowly recovering from my stupid, self-inflicted emotional upheaval, which is good, but has left me a little scattered. So for today you get a listicle of random nonsense, the…