READ ALL ABOUT IT
Since 2012, I’ve been writing about books. And the act of reading. And the importance of story and narrative. But, mostly, the underlying theme of all I write is how taking a moment to stop and digest some longform text — instead of scrolling, instead of watching a video, instead of multitasking — can be one of the most grounding things we can do for ourselves. Here’s the one-stop online home for all this writing.
You can read more about me and my work by moseying over here. Want to peruse periodic “essay drops” — excerpts from my work-in-progress essay collection about Homesickness? Here ya go.
Lake Effect
As I am wont to do, I coined a random phrase to describe a certain type of book. This time, it was in a column that I occasionally penned for a small newspaper, and the term is Mountain Reads. It was the end of May…and it was 2021. Ergo, we were all hankerin’ to travel, so I shared some books that weren’t really “beach reads,” but would still make good holiday reads. I decided to phrase it that way because I’m not really a beach-read kind of person (at least the way publishers try to market the term and the books they deem to fit), but, well…here, let me just share some of the text:
