In two weeks it will be the year in which my book comes out. Watch this space for GRACE NOTES, coming in May 2026 from Sibylline Press! @sibyllinepress.bsky.social

I bet more than one person my age feels this way today. substack.com/@kdbonville/...

Enjoy my conversation with Adam Roberts; from publishing to ISBN numbers to dead vice presidents, we cover it all in 32 minutes! substack.com/@adamroberts...

Does the White House really need a ballroom more than kids need to eat, the arts need support, or cancer needs a cure?

Hey @yahoo.bsky.social, what’s going on with mail access today?

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This is what happens when you write at 1:30am. open.substack.com/pub/kdbonvil...

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Today’s thoughts. substack.com/@kdbonville/...

What’s the over/under on POTUS offending someone at the Pope’s funeral?

If paying taxes is what makes someone a viable citizen, then the occupant of the White House is about as non-viable as it gets.

Today’s thoughts. substack.com/@kdbonville/...

With apologies and eternal gratitude to Shel Silverstein. #iykyk open.substack.com/pub/kdbonvil...

This was intended to go in a different direction, but the words go where they go. kdbonville.substack.com?utm_campaign...

April Fool’s Day isn’t as funny when you’re living in a nation run by sycophantic power mongers.

My friend Larae’s film “Echoes of Ailey” has been nominated for a Webby. You know what to do: VOTE. It’s three minutes of beautiful. vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

It’s been a bit - here’s a new piece. substack.com/@kdbonville/...

REM needs to come out of retirement and re-record “Radio Free Europe.”

Today’s musings. substack.com/@kdbonville/...

Canada is like that one friend who would do anything for you, but you don’t want to piss them off. I can respect that.

Tonight I walked past two rats on my way home from the theatre, and I thought, yep, that’s on brand with the world right now.

Republicans saying they don’t want their tax dollars to go to schools because they don’t have kids is like me saying I don’t want my tax dollars to go to expenses incurred from the president playing golf because I don’t play golf.

Hey fellow writers! Tonight the president will address both houses of Congress, and I will not watch. That got me thinking: what if everyone here were to use that time writing, and then post what we write? Let’s do it!

A poem for our times. substack.com/@kdbonville/...

This Presidents Day, let’s focus on the crimes being committed by the current occupant of the office.

Massachusetts: Where it can be 14 degrees out but you’ll still get asked, when ordering coffee, if you want hot or iced.

If you’re overwhelmed and want to support something but aren’t sure what, find an arts organization that resonates with you and make a gift. When you do, you support artists who create, perform, teach, and remind us what it means to live in a world that values beauty. We need art and art needs us.

Out of curiosity, what’s it costing us to keep the president safe at the Super Bowl? I would think that’s an inefficient use of American money. I mean, since we’re cutting back and all…

Right now, every person who works for a nonprofit arts organization should be asking themselves, "What would I do right now if I worked for the Kennedy Center?" And then they should prepare to do it.

I invented a new word: existentialhaustion. If you need a definition, you don’t feel it.

Turned on the news and caught the words that someone was found “dead inside” and my immediate reaction was “that’s harsh, maybe he’s just really angry” before I realized they were saying someone was literally found dead inside a house.

I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls

Why hasn’t Elon Musk been arrested? Surely what he’s doing is illegal…

A bit of poetry: substack.com/@kdbonville/...

The president dissolved the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. No surprise. The arts are what make us human and the current regime is anything but human.

It’s an interesting thing, writing. Some days I find it therapeutic, and sometimes it feels like another reason to consider therapy. Either way, it’s what I do.

Are there any Republicans with the fortitude to stand up to the regime?

For better or for worse, I aced The NY Times news quiz today.

When it’s hypothetical, it’s easy to imagine oneself on the side of the heroes. It’s time to stop imagining.

Today’s 100 words: substack.com/@kdbonville/...

So, today’s Day 6. Medical research: halted. Gun control measures: killed. ICE agents can raid schools and churches. Diversity, equity, inclusion? Dead, dead, dead. And don’t get me started on the 1,500 now free people who participated in an insurrection. Republicans, you all are good with this?

If the government starts using “sex” instead of “gender” on forms, then I’m going to start answering “not recently” instead of “female.”

I miss Doug Emhoff.

My latest piece on Substack: kdbonville.substack.com/p/rememberin...

I’m at 99 followers. Who wants to be my 100th?

Today is the 106th anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood.

Today’s read.

A funeral for a man who did great things, attended by a man who’s about to undo great things.

It’s a 2-for-1 vote day today! votefab40.com/2024/katie-d...