I WRITE ABOUT ORDINARY LIVES, COMPLICATED QUESTIONS, BOOKS, MEMORY AND THE THINGS WE USUALLY UNDERSTAND ONLY AFTER THEY'VE HAPPENED.
Inside the Library
ESSAYS
Longer thoughts for questions that don't have short answers.
ENTER 02POETRY
Some things don't want to become essays.
ENTER 03NOTES
Small thoughts that didn't need to become essays.
ENTER 04BOOKS
Things I've written, and one I'm still trying to finish.
ENTER 05READING
What's currently on the desk, and what changed how I think.
ENTER 06JOURNAL
Notes from behind the sentences.
ENTER 07ARCHIVE
Everything, in order, cross-referenced and searchable.
ENTERCurrently on the Desk
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
An essay about the strange things adulthood does to friendship.
Why some people become more interesting after you stop trying to impress them.
The Essay I'm Still Thinking About
We Are All Becoming Strangers to Something.
“There are things we lose so gradually that we only notice them when we try to remember who we were before they disappeared.”READ ESSAY
From the Margin
ALL NOTES“Maybe adulthood is mostly learning what not to explain. Not because you've stopped caring what people think, but because you've finally worked out that most explanations were really just apologies for existing as you are, and you've decided to stop paying that particular tax.”
“We don't always miss people. Sometimes we miss who we were around them — a version of ourselves that only existed in that particular friendship, and that we have no other way of getting back to.”
“Some questions become more important when they stop having answers. We treat silence as absence, but sometimes it's the only honest response left to a question that was never going to fit inside language to begin with.”