Hi everybody, Here’s a little change of pace, since I’m so behind on sending these things. I wrote this back in May 2020 and stuffed it in a folder. Today, though, I saw something about Phantom closing on Broadway after its 35-year…
Hi friends, It’s Spring Proper here, which means I’m starting to have wardrobe anxiety. I understand how to dress when it’s cold. I’m actually kind of good at it. But here at the equinox of my life, I find myself still failing to figure out how…
Hi friends, I’m going to try to ease up on screaming at you about state-sponsored censorship efforts this week, I promise. I just… struggle to find other things to talk about, honestly. [note from the future: I’m returning to the…
We meet again. Here\’s your weekly reminder that it\’s time to get very loud about intellectual freedom and freedom of expression if you aren\’t already. If you don\’t live in a red state, I know it might be easy to write…
Hi friends, Here\’s a really fun nature story that I got a kick out of last week. My favorite detail is that he hung on to the megabug for a decade before figuring out it was actually a monumental discovery. Incidentally,…
Hello friends, It\’s not been a great week for American educators and librarians (and I highly recommend following Kelly Jensen\’s work at Book Riot if you care about this stuff at all). I can\’t stress enough that at this point it\’s…
Friends, I was dealt a savage, savage emotional blow this week when I learned that one of the preeminent cultural institutions of my childhood will soon be no more. I speak, of course, of the only fifty-year-old indoor roller coaster in the…
Happy Friday, internet friends. I hope you all have something good happening this weekend, even (especially) if it\’s only a few uninterrupted hours to curl up under a blanket with a book and a hot beverage, which is just all I…
Since my last email, we\’ve endured a round of winter weather that very thoroughly knocked my household off course with a full week of kindergarten AMI (alternate methods of instruction, i.e. remote learning, if that particular face of hell isn\’t…
Hello darlings, I’d like to give myself full commit-to-the-bit credit for my pseudonym act, since I literally drove out of town early one morning before work to a rural post office, where I registered for a legally required physical mailing…