Aliens in my garden

I started out writing this post about mysteries and how sometimes I’m disgustingly incurious, and sometimes I really need to solve the puzzle. The post was smarmy and boring and full of cliches about weaving threads together to make a blanket, and the blanket is a story, and the story is my life. It was [...]

Disappeared

We lost Lila at the beach last week. I’ve said that out loud to a dozen people since, and every time I speak those words my body hums with an icy vibration that makes me feel as if my soul has been electrocuted. We went down to Second Beach in Newport, RI for the afternoon [...]

Thank you

To the kind person who sent me Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Ladies’ Man. On our way out of the driveway for our three week trip to the east coast, I pulled the truck up to the mailbox and had Tyler reach out to grab the previous day’s mail. It contained a small padded envelope [...]

It’s the weather, stupid (stupid me, not stupid you)

Summer slunk off to the hinterlands again, and we’re back to wearing fleece around the house. My electric bill appreciates the break, but the garden is confused. I put a second quilt on the bed and shut off the window fan. My melancholia came back when I’d only just tucked it into the soil next [...]

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