Dear Darling Ones, As our time together under the umbrella of the COVID Diaries comes to a close, you should know there were no tears in the typing of this post. Thus far there have been no tears in the living of this day. There was supposed to be a new plant delightfully called Job’s Biblical Tears and it was going to live nestled between Duke and McNamara* on the coffee table. Alas, the plant shop was out of Job’s…
Dear Darling Ones, It happened. I tipped over into an obsession with The Marfa Tapes. It’s like Julien Baker all over again, which was Kathleen Edwards all over again, which was Waxhatchee all over again, which was. . . you get the picture. We all recognize that I have obsessive tendencies. I probably don’t need to illustrate them every time. I found The Marfa Tapes when the song “Geraldene” flittered across my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify. Whenever I find…
Hi Darling Ones, I started this list with intentions of posting it the day after The Top 10 Nonfiction Music Books, but I am fickle and easily distracted. This morning TimeHop reminded me that twelve years ago I talked to Arthur Phillips about The ‘Mats after his phenomenal reading at the library. You’ll see why this jogged my memory if you read the list below. 1. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid I love this book. I…
Hi Darling Ones, As you know I’m not particularly religious or spiritual. I call myself agnostic because while I’m certain there isn’t a white bearded man in the sky judging us, I do believe there is something magical in the universe. Maybe that’s what God is? I don’t know. Organized religion strikes me as cult-like and while I find the rituals of my childhood Catholicism very soothing, I mostly only worship Ellen Willis and peanut butter. I bring this up…
Hi Darling Ones, I’ve been working my ass off this week and it makes me super dull. All my brain power has been going to this client project that consistently tries to make me feel not smart enough. However, after much thinking, trial and error, and dogged determination, it turns out I am smart enough. This is all made extra difficult because I have no had to work this hard or think this much about work for nearly a year….
Hi Darling Ones, I had a rough day so I’m just gonna jump to some answers. What’s it like being tall? Today I finished reading Sanctuary by Emily Rapp Black and at one point she writes something like, I never felt safe in my own body. Hoo boy, that kind of pull the rug out from under me. I don’t know if it’s my height or my weight or a combination of the two, but I too have never felt…