Archive - How to Talk to Yourself

How to Watch an Eclipse

On predictions and obsessions

Apr 11 •

March 2024

I love a leap day. There are many reasons to love it — the way it flips February from even to odd and nudges Valentine’s Day out of its middle, how it…

Mar 1 •

January 2024

Goodbye to some of that

Jan 28 •

December 2023

How to Look Back

Favorite writing of 2023

Dec 27, 2023 •

How to Make a Dish

Dinner is ready, even if nothing else is

Dec 18, 2023 •

How to Come Home

Dec 2, 2023 •

June 2023

Some calamities you live with. Some Calamities you live in.

Jun 29, 2023 •

May 2023

How to Own Your Story

A young woman takes a photo of an unremarkable building with her phone, her parents watching from a few feet away.

May 19, 2023 •

April 2023

Hey Look at this New Thing Called Substack Notes

A new place to connect

Apr 11, 2023 •

March 2023

How to Get from There to Here

Lewis, Kansas was 10 minutes straight east; Greensburg (home of the world’s largest hand-dug well) 28 minutes south. Offerle, a few low buildings…

Mar 2, 2023 •

February 2023

Book Bits: Mrs. Dalloway

Picturing Selves and Time

Feb 24, 2023 •

January 2023

When It Seems Like Others Are Busy Making the World Into Something Else

Jan 16, 2023 •

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