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Personal essays from an aspiring urban gardener, thoughts on parenting disability, and living a life of creative overflow in Nashville, TN.
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Orion’s Belt (opens the original)
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Sylvia knew there was no use in looking back— not that it would have ever occurred to her to do so. They were too far gone now. She’d been too far gone from the minute Orion picked her up at the farmhouse porch.“Orion? What kind of name is that anyhow?” Her mama shook her head when Sylvia told her he’d come to give her a ride into town for the dance. He… Read more
weekly delights #61 (opens the original)
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Greetings from the heat dome of Tennessee. Before we get into the meat of this issue I have to address something. In August I announced that I was reducing the price of my Substack subscription from $8/mo to $5/mo, blithely believing this would be applied to all future and current subscriptions. However, after a few of you reached out to let me know the discount hasn’t been applied, I realized this was not the case. I think it’s kind of sneaky of to be honest, and hope that they change this feat
The Milagro Beanfield War (opens the original)
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I’m going to spare you the rabbit hole that included several reddit threads and a Pinterest deep dive that prompted me to turn on The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) and just cut to it— I love this film. And now I’m going to write about it in depth because it’s my blog and I can do what I want. I also want to commit at the top of this post to not use the phrase “they don’t make movies like this anymore,” because what do I know? The last one I watched and really loved was Guillermo del Torro’s Frank
September Rituals Keeping Me Going (opens the original)
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It’s the first Saturday of the month, and Nashville is so screaming hot my son’s soccer game has been cancelled. Which suits me right down to the ground because I’ve needed a slow morning after the constant hustle of the last few weeks. In an effort to eek out a few more minutes in bed, I put my kids in front of Shaun the Sheep and gave them each an oat bar, only to have Oscar back away from me like I just offered him hard drugs. “What is it babe?” “But you said...” he falters for a minute, “You
weekly delights #60 (opens the original)
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Hello friends, goodbye August. For the entire month I’ve made all my writing here free to read, including these installments of Weekly Delights, which are normally reserved for paid subscribers. Thank you for being here. For reading, for sharing, for liking. In case you missed it, this month I also lowered the monthly subscription rate to half-price— forever, for all subscribers. This is a thank you to everyone who continues to financially support my work here, and going forward there will be so
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