happenings & vignettes

Part of what’s kept me in my hermit hole for so long is that my motivations have changed. I’m no longer moved as I once was, primarily by scarcity, urgency, approval,

Ever since I learned that the existing water on earth is the only water there will ever be, I look at the ocean differently. As I walk on the beach, I attempt the

24 hours of dungeon-ing around, streaming non-stop Harry Potter, mashing potatoes and bananas into near drinkable slop for M, who’s just had all four wisdom teeth removed. She said her tongue feels

One of the more annoying features of my German-ness is the whiskers that increasingly grow out of my face. I spend an inordinate amount of time feeling around for them with my fingertips

There’s a lot of time to think when you’re sitting on the back of a scooter, being chauffeured between the coastline and the interior of Bali. There are frangipani flowers peppering