Jury duty, COVID, and the collective spirit
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January 2023

The end of clutter, what's next, and a note about the HarperCollins strike
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December 2022

Notes for the new year
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November 2022

A brief personal history of Twitter, plus where to find me now
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October 2022

In last month’s newsletter, I linked to a lovely New York Times Book Review essay by Elisabeth Egan about the “enduring wisdom” of Goodnight Moon…

September 2022

On book challenges and the carless life
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August 2022

File under "notes to self"

June 2022

Last week I decamped to the beach in North Carolina last week with my family, and until the Roe news broke on Friday I could not have felt more relaxed…

May 2022

I am an archivist’s nightmare. Look at the condition in which I had been keeping decades’ worth of letters—first in a storage unit with zero climate…
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April 2022

What I've been up to lately
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January 2022

For Christmas, my true love gave me singing lessons. I am a sing-in-the-shower, sing-while-cooking, sing-along-to-the-car-radio kind of singer, which is…

December 2021

On wrapping up the year and reading (some of) the comments
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