Archive - Mischief Missives

At some point, it seems I started aging.

When did that happen?

May 16

April 2025

When *did* last the lilacs in the dooryard bloom?

A note on spring during the longest year

Apr 18

March 2025

Drop back ten and punt

When someone else makes you regroup, let 'em

Mar 5

January 2025

One of the side effects of the climate crisis is perpetual grief

Grieve comfort. Grieve blissful ignorance. Grieve faith in your fellow humans to do the right thing given the chance.

Jan 9

December 2024

First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –

"Things like this just don't happen here" and other lies we tell ourselves, especially around the holidays

Dec 19, 2024

November 2024

A letter to you today

We've been here before and we'll be here again.

Nov 6, 2024

June 2024

TL;DR: I self-published my dang book

It's not ideal but I thought you might like to know.

Jun 5, 2024

March 2023

The harmful systems we're all part of.

Diet culture and dealing with feeling like there's no ethical anything under all of this.

Mar 21, 2023

February 2023

People use the metaphor of snakes shedding their skin all wrong and I hate it.

I was a weird snake girl and a pedant. I'm still both, I guess.

Feb 17, 2023

January 2023

Scarcity makes people mean

When everything is a zero-sum game, most of us lose

Jan 30, 2023

December 2022

The wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.

All the complicated details are completed

Dec 21, 2022

November 2022

Doing the same thing but in different places

The internet is a nomadic place and we have no home

Nov 30, 2022

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