Productivity
Don't Let Personal Projects Become "Someday" Projects
Practical ways to keep writing, making art, and creating for yourself even when work demands your attention
Take the Picture, Because You'll Forget More Than You Think
What a bizarrely calm bird taught me about memory, detail, and proof
Stop Trying to Care About Things You’re Done With
Why interest fades, what to do when it does, and why people push back
I'm Not an April Fool's Person
On pranks, awkward social scripts, and quietly stepping out of the joke
This Is Not the Audience I Ordered
A writer’s take on audience mismatch, parasocial weirdness, and platform logic that doesn’t add up
Somewhere Between Winter and Whatever Comes Next
Turning fifty, rearranging a life, and letting the space tell the truth
5 Small, Strange Habits Every Longtime Writer Develops
From mentally editing restaurant menus to collecting odd bits of dialogue for future stories
What I'd Grab in the Criterion Closet
A short list of long obsessions
Eleven-Year-Old Me Had a Plan
What she got wrong about adulthood and what she understood better than I did
What I Kept, What I Threw Away, and Why It Mattered
On cleaning out our house, reclaiming a space, and choosing the present
I Don't Want to Be Discovered. I Want to Be Understood
Reflections on visibility, proximity, and what creative recognition really costs
The Difference Between Having a Thought and Publishing It
How I decide when to stop writing and close the tab
Jim Carrey, Andy Kaufman, and the Art of Letting People Squirm
A love letter to social experiments, good-natured trolling, and intentional confusion