It's a double CNF day! Read "Cold Comfort" by @sarahorman.bsky.social

Artist Daryl Howard’s journey—from a Texas childhood with no art on the walls to mastering Japanese woodblock prints—is a story of fate, fire, and following the work. "I have been gifted the ability to do this." Read more:

I'm excited to share a new essay today in the Barbed Wire! thebarbedwire.com/2025/03/18/d...

At today's Tesla Takedown protest in north Austin. Alex Jones showed up for a bit, got drowned out. Hundreds of people came. My pics don't do justice. Huge support from passing cars. #resist #austin @teslatakedown.com

Working on my memoir today, I wrote myself this note: "Where do I put my childhood?"

Rebecca Solnit plays devil's advocate in the best way. "Often, it’s an example of passionate idealism that converts others. The performance of integrity is more influential than that of compromise." H/T @tonyreads.bsky.social

An essay about how motherhood changed my understanding of time. "Fifteen years ago, I became a mother and lost track of time. The organizing principle of my life with my infant son was purely physical: milk in, milk out. I was a manager of bodily fluids." www.themanifeststation.net/2024/11/17/s...

This was a great episode. I especially liked the bit of wisdom Matthew Zapruder quoted from Robert Hass: "Put the problem in the poem." I just tried it with a poem about seeing Magic Mike Live, and my draft is much better now.

This week I'm celebrating a new essay out in the world. "How She Suffered" is about how looking back on a series of kidney infections that I experienced in my 20s helped me quit drinking and suffering in silence in my 40s. www.bridge-chicago.org/magazine/how...