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Imagination practice
When is the last time you daydreamed on purpose?
Feb 24, 2025
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Best-laid schemes
Agley, agley, agley
Jul 28, 2025
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No words
Or: Why I'm a little jealous of my neighbor's dog
Jun 6, 2025
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14:21
A spontaneous video message for my lovely subscribers ❤️
By "spontaneous" I mean 15 minutes of unscripted chatter about what I've got planned for this space
May 2, 2025
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Three things I'm excited about this week
Lynda Barry (always!), book news, and the promise of a future feast
Apr 26, 2025
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Stitching
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Always leave thread in the needle
A poem for creatives
Nov 18, 2024
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An embroidered ode to a rat who has left the planet
Bramble Cay melomys, we hardly knew ye
Jun 17, 2024
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Time doing this is time well spent
This week in goosebumps: mushroom serendipity in Kokoro and The Bear
Jun 3, 2024
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Catalog of Enthusiasms
Juicy explorations of the reading-thinking-stitching life from the author of THE NERVIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, FOX AND CROW ARE NOT FRIENDS, and other books.
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Booknotes
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Goo Dreads
Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it
Jan 7, 2025
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Your name might be in one of the books on my shelves
Thanks to a special addition to my marginalia habits
Dec 30, 2024
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I am now a person who has read War and Peace
And I beat Snoopy by approximately 1556 years
Dec 23, 2024
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Juniper time
A glad thought, an earnest hope, a sweet memory
Sep 9, 2024
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I remember what's IN the book, not where I've put it
Among the many things that annoy me about myself is the way I lose track of physical objects.
Aug 26, 2024
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Two well-dressed women and Peter Twist
The role of "respectful imagination" in Tolstoy's work...and my own
Jul 14, 2024
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My Sunday ritual: a reading plan for the week
Really I just like making lists
Jul 8, 2024
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What lit you up this month?
Three things I was enthusiastic about in June: American Gothic literature, "Benito Cereno," and...a chicken window? How about you?
Jun 30, 2024
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Encounters with Beauty
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Two well-dressed women and Peter Twist
The role of "respectful imagination" in Tolstoy's work...and my own
Jul 14, 2024
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Melissa Wiley
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What lit you up this month?
Three things I was enthusiastic about in June: American Gothic literature, "Benito Cereno," and...a chicken window? How about you?
Jun 30, 2024
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"This is the dream we carry through the world"
Olav Hauge, Tales from Moominvalley, and the delights of sharing your favorite poets with your teens
Jun 24, 2024
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Time doing this is time well spent
This week in goosebumps: mushroom serendipity in Kokoro and The Bear
Jun 3, 2024
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Melissa Wiley
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