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The first in a series of posts exploring Activism for Introverts. Voter turnout in 2020 is poised to be the highest in decades, if not the century. Yet, there's no indication as to which party will benefit from an expanded electorate. Nothing is certain, and arguably the most important form of activism we can do… Continue reading Activism for Introverts: Help the Library of Congress Transcribe Suffragist Letters & Diaries
I have long resolved the internal debate about whether I should or shouldn’t, would or wouldn’t do an MFA. Recently, I’ve been exploring an M.A. in Humane Education but, for the time being, that’s something I’m simply wishing into the world as I don’t have the time or finances to apply at this point in time. While… Continue reading My DIY MFA
A miscellaneous news and reading roundup (or: an enthusiastic summary of the most interesting, weird and worthwhile ways I procrastinated on the worldwide web this week). I read a dozen other articles this week, but none of them were as beautiful, compelling and resonant as the essays and interviews in Emergence Magazine, a quarterly online… Continue reading Ragtag & Sundry Sunday
I was excited to hear about the Veganism of Color: Virtual Conference coming up in September 2019. So I figured I'd spread the word and encourage people to explore the important work that the organizers are doing. The conference is FREE, but you must register to reserve your spot. Register: To register for Day One,… Continue reading Veganism of Color: Virtual Conference, 2019
When I first started reading A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume, I smiled grimly. Like the novel's protagonist, Frankie, and indeed like the author herself, I too take pictures of dead little creatures. We are never as unique or exceptional as we think we are, a fact that Frankie--an aspiring and, in her mind, failed… Continue reading Book Review: A Line Made By Walking, by Sara Baume
Like falling in love, I became vegan the way a character in a Hemingway novel became bankrupt: “gradually and then suddenly.”
One of my favorite blogs is The [Blank] Garden, a reading journal slash book review website. Almost every review (or what its creator, Juliana Brina, wonderfully describes as "efforts of affection") is written as a letter to the author of the novel or story in question, which I adore and, as a longtime letter-writer, I… Continue reading Know Thy Shelf | 01
A few years ago I started writing my regular 'Ragtag & Sundry' posts on a Sunday afternoon--an enthusiastic summary, essentially, of the most interesting, weird and worthwhile ways I procrastinated on the world wide web that week. As I've mentioned a couple of times this month, I'm procrastinating on writing a particular blog post that… Continue reading Ragtag & Sundry
I love Orion Magazine, and one of my favorite features is The Place Where You Live project, which provides readers with space to record their ideas about "place." Anyone can submit an entry, which I love. You don't need to identify as a "real" writer, and--whoever you are--I highly encourage you to give it a go if… Continue reading The Place Where You Live
More than two years have passed since I wrote my last post. I have always been an inconsistent and ambivalent blogger, in no small part because "blogger" is an inelegant, philistine, and silly-sounding word, and I will come up with the most trivial and haughty of excuses to not write. Other excuses are less snobbish… Continue reading Begin again