Thank you Jessica Hoppe for leading me down this rabbit hole today! "An ethical and meaningful life, in this view, includes recognition that we dangle in the world, that we suffer unnecessarily." yalereview.org/article/kaza-b…

This reminds me of when I (a Philadelphian) scrolled through my friend's Hinge in LA, and she kept rejecting people because they were TOO GOOD LOOKING.

i've entered my feminist love studies era. so far i have read Minimizing Marriage and Sad Love. now bell hooks? send recommendations pls Caleb Ward rodlyn-mae banting Kayleigh Hughes

Just learned of the death of Cai Emmons, a remarkable person & my MFA prof. I'm inspired to learn she confronted death through psychedelics and asserted her right to die under Oregon's Death with Dignity law. An incredible role model in life and death. caiemmons.medium.com/wrapping-up-a-…

Ursula K. Le Guin on the transformative powers of menopause: "The woman who is willing to make that change must become pregnant with herself, at last. She must bear herself, her third self, her old age, with travail and alone." Thank you Caleb Ward for SPACE CRONE!

Sofi Thanhauser on the joys of rare & vintage clothes: "Slowly, ineluctably, these treasures drained any possible enthusiasm I could have felt for the clothes in the Falmouth TJ Maxx, which was the other place I shopped at the time. I became, irrevocably, a clothing snob."

I have another essay out! It's about abortion, embodiment, maternal ambivalence & the ways women are never "protected" during sex. I'm thrilled this essay found a home with Solstice Literary Magazine. solsticelitmag.org/content/intern…

this one #adriennerich

I'm on a marissa zappas fragrance journey! So far I've smelled like a fancy salad (violette hay) and a sexy bog (petrichor), both in the best possible ways. 10/10 would recommend!

5yo: Mama, what will you do while I'm at school tomorrow? Me: I have to work all day. 5yo: Do you ever get distracted? Me: Yes, sometimes. 5yo: So then they don't give you money? Me: No, they still give me money. 5yo: So you don't tell them you're distracted? Me: ...

sent a manuscript to an agent for the first time ever! it's 100 pages, which is short for a book but by far the longest thing i've ever written.