G asked me what I wanted for Xmas a few weeks ago, and I said a dumpster. It came the other day. I don’t know what’s making me happier at this point, my new car or this dumpster.
Category: Inspired by in 2025
30 Things I’ve Been Thinking About This Month
I’ve been thinking about my sourdough starter. I’ve been thinking of it like a newborn baby that I’m trying to get on a good feeding schedule.
Inspired By In August 2025
Thinking About I spend the mornings reading now. I used to spend them writing, and sometimes scrolling—a bad habit I finally fixed by installing Downtime*, which restricts my screen time. I finished The Master last night. It’s a fictional biography of Henry James, and I loved it. Now I want to re-read James’s A Portrait … Continue reading Inspired By In August 2025
Inspired By In July 2025
July always feels like the Saturday of summer, and August the Sunday night. Tomorrow’s August 1st, and I can already feel that creeping Sunday-night energy. But for now? I’m leaning into it: bike rides, boogie boarding, beach reads, family dinners. Sun-drunk and salty.
Inspired By In June 2025
She said she liked the way the people in Mansfield seemed to have enough. She said they weren’t into “more, more, more, for the sake of more” the way many people in Portland are. And she found this lovely and refreshing. She finds it refreshing, but frankly, this ‘enough’ mindset drives me bats. I see it as a form of complacency.
Inspired By In April 2025
I’ve been listening to her coverage of Trump’s first hundred days, and her informed rage is deeply, deeply satisfying. I like that she comes with stories, history, connections, and receipts. I hate hearing about the things she reports on; they wreck me, but I need to hear. As of today, she’s returning to just Mondays, and I will miss her.
Inspired By In March 2025
The problem with me is that I am a terrible photographer. Not only that, but I always want to take a picture at the wrong time, like during yoga class when everyone is in Happy Baby, or of someone who definitely does not want their picture taken. I take these forbidden pictures anyway.
Inspired By In February 2025
I’m currently reading Something In The Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson. It’s making me feel kinda the same way I felt when I read Braiding Sweetgrass. Like nature will cure us if we let her. It makes me want to go for long walks in the woods, and not think about all the things.
Inspired By In January 2025
I’m writing this post in the Hampton Inn in Elmira, NY. Tomorrow morning I take the 6 AM flight to Detroit and after a stop in Minneapolis I will end up in Portland, where I’ll be for the weekend visiting Emily and the kids and seeing her new house and going to yoga and doing … Continue reading Inspired By In January 2025
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