I’ve been writing again. Not that I ever entirely stopped. But there’s writing, and then there’s following a thought long enough to find out what you actually think. I wanted somewhere with a little more room for that. So I made a substack: Marginalia, a home for longer essays on whatever I can’t seem to leave alone. So far, that’s meant staying home from a party I absolutely could have attended, wandering around a centuries-old Spanish city thinking about time, and whatever

Reader, life has a way of moving fast and slow all at once. I never stopped writing or making these playlists. I just really want them somewhere you can find them easily again. I had a charming and grimace-inducing time reading my old posts, but that’s growth, isn’t it? (Many posts have been relegated to the archive, where they will remain.) I suspect the last few years brought changes for you, too. The best bits of me are the same. I still love to travel, albeit a little slo

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