Thoughts & essays
The shorter pieces.
A changed mind. Help with an opinion. Work that follows us home.
3 min read
When help gets a vote
One choice is right there. The other requires explaining yourself. On a tired day, that is quite a vote.
3 min read
What the number leaves out
The chart looks better. I want to know where the unfinished work went.
3 min read
I understand. Now what?
The people living with the pattern may be waiting for a different development.
2 min read
Let me think about that
What would make it easier to come back with a different answer?
Book excerpts
From The Inconvenient Human.
Selected passages, in their original words.
3 min read
What Must Be Allowed to Wait
If I require permanent completion before I permit myself to be present, presence will remain postponed for the rest of my life.
2 min read
Belonging Without Ownership
The easiest person to reduce is the one we do not need to know.
2 min read
The Other Side of the Story
Each account could be sincere and still be incomplete.
1 min read
Being Needed
I permitted myself to carry more easily than I permitted myself to be carried.
2 min read
What Continues
Inheritance is not limited to the qualities we admire.
From elsewhere
Also at my other desk.
Previously published writing, brought together here.
Chapters & excerpts
Inside the books.
Read the opening chapters of the novels or a passage from The Inconvenient Human.
Book excerpt
The laptop between us
“The movie continues. Misha is beside me. My attention is still inside the work.”
Book excerpt
Three blue plates
“She ran her thumb over a chip in one rim, then exchanged that plate for another in the cupboard.”
Book excerpt
Adjustment applied
“The alert didn’t announce itself.”