I’ve been thinking about household habits: ones I had when I lived in a house for the better part of my life, ones I had when I lived in the Airstream and we travelled all the time, and ones I’m developing now that I’m back in a house. Their changes mirror my life’s changes in ways I would not have predicted.
Month: September 2026
My Short Story of Infinite Jest
Now that I’m kayaking less as well as seeing fewer bands play outside, I’ve wanted to write more, and my manuscript work is less writing, more research, which I hate. So, when Kari from A Grace Full Life asked me about the story behind spending a weekend with writer David Foster Wallace, no less while […]
The Next Steps Inside My Soul
Dragging myself towards an organized interior, now that fall is inescapable.
The Final Day of the Best Summer
A final summer’s end post about the ultimate coin toss: Would I choose to leave the road, now that I’ve enjoyed summer so much? Plus, a house renovation update.
Strega Nona’s Tomato Vines
Even though Daddy had a giant garden on our land in Virginia, one where each spring he’d put a shovel full of horse manure from the barn in a hole under each tomato cage, even though Momma every fall would pickle and can and freeze and preserve, and even though throughout the summer I’d sit […]
