Hi. Welcome to the new home of my blog. If you’d like to read my past posts, head on over to Blogger. If you’re fine where you’re at, by all means stay. I’ve spent more time than I thought possible crafting the text of my “about” page because an awkward exchange with a friend convinced… Continue reading The New Digs

Beyond the golden years of trick-or-treating, Halloween morphs into a high-pressure holiday, like New Year’s Eve or the 4th of July, when you feel like you must have plans or else endure a long night of loneliness and self-loathing, a night pierced by the cackling laughter of fun-havers outside your window, a night most unhallowed.… Continue reading A Haunting

Having returned from a 10-day sojourn to the East Coast to visit family and friends, and having slept for 10 hours in my own bed, I’m enjoying the return to my morning ritual: some coffee (French press, how I’ve missed you), a corner spot on the green couch, the cool morning air impossible to come… Continue reading Making it Home