Son (8): “dad, did people go potty 🚽 in outhouses in the 1980’s?” Know-it-all older daughter: 📢 “no, bud, that was the 1970’s” 😂

Blocked. Reported. 🚫

such a fun time hearing from novelist Jess Walter at Hawthorne House yesterday. His new book "So Far Gone" was a crazy 🤪🤪 introduction to life in #spokane.

Porch light on=you are home and have candy 🍬 Off=gone or you’ve run out. We all know this, right? 🎃

Last year, I taught my kids to swim in the pool where I learned to swim as a boy. I remembered everything: the fear, holding the edge. I made this poem about how much has changed, and how little. Rest—Mischa Willett open.substack.com/pub/rabbitroom…

substack.com/home/post/p-17… A new missive just dropped from the middle of our first Fall in Spokane. 👆🏼

I had a fine time talking with Jonathan Rogers over at The HABIT The Rabbit Room about MFA's and artists, Romantics and 🤖 - -. . omny.fm/shows/the-habi…

Tbh, “civil war biscuits” took me a minute 🤔, but I’m right there with you now 💭

Friday Links for the afternoon crowd with Nadya Williams James Matthew Wilson Wiseblood Books Mischa Willett Shemaiah Gonzalez & more Dappled Things dappledthings.org/deep-down-thin…

Today at the lovely Inkwell, catch Part II of the conversation we started earlier this week (and there's a link in there to Part I). inkwellct.substack.com/p/a-key-to-the…

The Doc would like to have a word…

I’m in the The New York Times today. Stop calling your phone a drug. It’s a portal into Fairyland! nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opi…

Barring an upset, forcing a last-minute December addition, these are my 🎵Records of the Year 🎧  Full thoughts + EP roundup ➡️ [mischawillett.com/everything/12/…] feat. @iamjohnvandeusen, WILDERADO, Velvet Blue Music . #Music #BestAlbums2025 #NowPlaying #christianMusic

“Santa Claus is real.” “No, he’s not.” “Yes he is, I've seen him.” “You've seen him?” “Yes.” “You've seen a sleigh with eight tiny reindeer that's crewed by the elves, and captained by a man so jolly that Heaven itself sent him back down?” “No.” “No.” “But I have seen a

Four weeks. We have 4 #Advent Sundays out of 52 tonight greatest church music ever written. 🎺 Woe betide any priest or music minister who has us singing norm-core worship tunes during this holy season 👼

Here I am reading you some CHRISTMAS POEMS 🎅 on the radio 📻 omny.fm/shows/john-kat…

Someone knows me 🥹🎄

Man, I don’t often see Christianity Today, but it’s beautiful art direction always catches my eye when I do. I looked into this one and lo! An essay by my friend Andrew Hendrixson about Wiman, and another by Dave Zahl about play, and recognition for Brett McCracken’s new book. #riches

Okay so great editing, bad camera work (WAY too tight), and one of the worst national anthems I’ve ever heard. #SuperBowl