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Hi again. It’s so nice to see you! (If you are wondering why I’m no longer showing up in your inboxes weekly/on Tuesdays, here’s your gentle reminder…

Oct 24, 2021

Hello again. One of the most delightful things I have seen recently is this little web app called WindowSwap where you click a button and you’re shown…

Jul 21, 2020

Hi again. In the recent past I have spent a good deal of time with two pieces of media that take place during seventh grade: Pen15, the TV show wherein…

Feb 24

Hi again. I moved to Washington, D.C. when I was 22, on the heels of a cross-country road trip, and before that, a terrible but well-paying office job…

Mar 30, 2021

Hi again. For a couple years in college and a couple years just after, I drove a navy blue late-’90s Volvo sedan. Before it was mine, it belonged to my…

Nov 17, 2020

Greetings! Thanks for agreeing to meet me inside the personal space of your email inbox. I'm writing to you from the small Massachusetts town I grew up…

Jul 14, 2020

Hi again. When I was in grad school, it started to feel like the walls were closing in. All my classmates seemed to have very particular post-graduation…

Jun 29, 2021

Plus a note about the future of constellations

Aug 24, 2021

Hi again. It can be shocking not to recognize yourself, in part or wholly, in someone’s description of you. I get that aftershock occasionally upon the…

Dec 22, 2020

Hi again. What a strange year. Mostly, for me, the best to be hoped for in 2021 was stasis. Mostly, for me, the year hummed along, measured in (mostly…

Dec 30, 2021

Hi again. I’m working on a theory of compliments. (Which, I suppose, is a theory of insults in reverse.) Maybe that’s an exaggeration. But I’ve been…

Mar 24

Hi again. I read two books on the theme of freedom recently. They both came out in 2021: Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint…

Jan 24

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