Archive - life, future, longing, ourselves: a newsletter

On a loved one's A.I. psychosis

Mar 26

February 2026

Nonsense and Sensibility

Could a canoe-bikepacking trip rescue my affair with a married man?

Feb 13

January 2026

Courage for what comes next

Building the scaffolding that will allow you to respond again and again and again

Jan 15

You have to think about other people

Writing about the inherent injury that is America’s medical system for The Baffler

Jan 8

December 2025

2025 Year in Art

Things that made me feel like the world is mostly populated by people I could love if I had the chance to

Dec 15, 2025

November 2025

being the fish, being the bird

a prose poem about Sisyphus, geologic time and physical therapy

Nov 30, 2025

October 2025

For three weeks, I only read work about oral injuries. Then a tooth mysteriously fell out of my mouth.

Oct 28, 2025

The writing on the wall

Powerlessness is an alibi. Hopelessness is an alibi.

Oct 7, 2025

September 2025

Shoulder season in occupied Portland

Injured in the "war-ravaged" city

Sep 27, 2025

August 2025

The promise and impossibility of belonging

Two new essays from this summer

Aug 27, 2025

July 2025

The nicotine trick

I don't want to lie my way out of wanting

Jul 31, 2025

June 2025

Against despair

Or, longing for a future you don't believe you'll live to see

Jun 23, 2025

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