yesterday i turned in an author's note and a new draft of the book i'm writing, internets! i am writing a book and i'm pretty pr...

this past sunday was, i realized, the first day on which i've seen every member of my immediate family in 14 years (when my sister got m...

we flew out to arizona for my stepsister's wedding at the beginning of the month. she's the last member of my immediate family and s...

we flew home from portugal via toronto this past sunday on the first flight that has ever given me occasion to resent canada (we were delay...

baby's first rally on the steps of city hall was successful, i hope; i signed up to roll out in support of city legislation that would d...

our apartment has been photographed for a tour, as have i, though joe and the cats will i guess remain unknown to the blogosphere! i wish we...

most people probably don't need to hear that naomi novik 's temeraire series, an alternate history in which the napoleonic wars are ...

my protest-monitoring whatsapp group pinged sunday night with an alert about a rally happening on monday: that meant that we were supposed t...

my aunt and uncle evacuated from pacific palisades, from the house i never did manage to visit for one of their legendary halloween parties ...

the feeling i've had most consistently of late is that it is time to run again; i need to run some more. my system needs to digest the t...

2025: THE YEAR IN REVIEW i sprayed rubbing alcohol on a tree. i cut the sleeves and hem off of a tee shirt. i ran five miles. i texted my ...

hey hey, a non-train post! i hoped to write a post while donating platelets today, but it seems that downing extra multivitamins last night ...