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Meditations on literature, music, and art from a writer and soprano in Paris. Let's bring salon culture back, one conversation at a time.

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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

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    Today I will just share a passage from my journal, raw and unedited. It is fittingly full of uncertain punctuation and pronouns. I’ll also share a U2 song that has resonated with me all week, “One Step Closer.” To my dad, I love and miss you so much. Infinitely more than big bushels. How has one year passed. There is a particular sort of anger in grief — that life goes on while someone is gone. Then there is a shame, knowing that you, too, have participated in this continuation in spite of yours

  2. Issue · Sep 13, 2026

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    With new life quite literally inside me, I have found myself more eager than usual to celebrate the brisk release of fall. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1939" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IQzd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progre

  3. Issue · Aug 30, 2026

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    The last drops of my summer were spent in the south of France, writing. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1939" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mKS-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.am

  4. Issue · Aug 16, 2026

    Lived writing (opens the original)

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    We’ve just spent two weeks in my native Pennsylvania, visiting family and friends and taking care of various tasks. It was a whirlwind of pierogies, ice cream, paperwork, and sunflowers—which is why I’m exceptionally writing here a week later than usual. <source type="image/

  5. Issue · Jul 26, 2026

    Inevitable life (opens the original)

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    We’ve just returned from a week of vacation in Corsica. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1093" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VXQz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.co

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