
Occasional thoughts from my porch. Or sofa, when it’s too chilly.
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We’ve got Tennessee Williams weather in Northampton today. I’m as languid as a cat on the porch sofa, my limbs long and loose. My hair is sticking to my neck. I sit up and lift it to fan my nape then flop back again.
I drank an iced vermo...
"Things teenagers used to make out to in the parking lots of such places."
Janine’s Frostee is the most touristy spot on the stretch of Route 9 between Worcester and Northampton. There are big signs announcing its imminence with arrows and...
"…they could only do that because they were French."
I’m performing in Foxboro on June 11th. Not at the stadium. I don’t draw crowds like Taylor Swift does. I’ll be telling a story at my friend, James Ferguson’s monthly storytelling series...
"Like I was in an action movie."
I fell and hit my head two and a half years ago. January, 2024. I had spent 2023 taking care of a lot of people and was exhausted. I watched two people die and two people lose their minds. I’d moved my kid...
"I tried!"
I stopped by a housing office today and it was, as the kids say, triggering. It wasn’t for me. It was for a single mom I know who has a toddler and suddenly needs a new place to live.
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The writers behind this newsletter.
DED-er-ick. Author SHE THE PEOPLE, an illustrated history of gender + US citizenship. Founder facebook.com/ERAusa. Conceited.
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