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
Procrasti-bread
I’m afraid of failing at bread. It’s the yeast, and the kneading, and the rising, and the proofing, and god only knows all what else. It’s a lot.
Confronting Ultra-Processed Foods: My Journey
No wonder everyone is fat. No wonder everyone is sick. Our food is nothing but chemicals, shaped like food. And it’s screwing with our microbiomes and our gene expressions, and our mental health, and the freaking climate.
The Art of the Stealth Project: How I Keep My Secrets
I needed a plan. And I realized this with a pain and a sadness and the most loneliness I had ever felt before, that no one was going to help me
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.
Zapped: My Love Affair with Bad Dopamine
I ran out of day again. Not because I was doing anything important—but because I got zapped. By Instagram. By dopamine. By the endless scroll that trades real life for tiny, tasty hits of nothing.
Who Is Your Designated Sane Person?
I serve as the Designated Sane Person for a few people in my life, and it gives me the warm-fuzzies to know this. It’s an honor, really, and I love it that I’ve become their sane harbor in the storm. Here’s how I’ve grown into this role over time.
Here’s What I Want
But if I want my future to be satisfying, happy, and worth living, I have to consider my choices now in light of the person I want to be in that imaginary future. I have to ask: What’s the best decision here in the Present for Future me?
Embracing Home Again After Vacation
You know how you walk from room to room and see everything as if for the first time?
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.
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