most people probably don't need to hear that naomi novik 's temeraire series, an alternate history in which the napoleonic wars are ...

my protest-monitoring whatsapp group pinged sunday night with an alert about a rally happening on monday: that meant that we were supposed t...

my aunt and uncle evacuated from pacific palisades, from the house i never did manage to visit for one of their legendary halloween parties ...

the feeling i've had most consistently of late is that it is time to run again; i need to run some more. my system needs to digest the t...

2025: THE YEAR IN REVIEW i sprayed rubbing alcohol on a tree. i cut the sleeves and hem off of a tee shirt. i ran five miles. i texted my ...

hey hey, a non-train post! i hoped to write a post while donating platelets today, but it seems that downing extra multivitamins last night ...

this could be the weekend i finally get around to arranging the heap of silk flowers i've been saving up to create a european-ish sidewa...

i've been pingponging between books that carry me down history's lazy river like the life preserver i was instructed to turn upside ...

it's hard not to slip into the dire belief that if i'm not going to pennsylvania and canvassing or spending all spare time phone ban...

my therapist seems confident that the harris-walz campaign will bring it home next month, though a bit of me wonders if it just makes sense ...

chocolate-chip raindrops this morning, the kind that might or might not add up to one wet cookie when i get off the train in queens. i shoul...

biden's disastrous debate appearance last week and the supreme court's even more disastrous ruling on presidential immunity this mon...