Learning Cursive On absence, ambition, and the long habit of catching up

New essay up today.

A cursive workbook, childhood interruption, and the long habit of doing it anyway.
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The Cancer Tree The summer I was diagnosed, and the life that changed with it.

I’ve been thinking about for a long time. I started a Substack: That’s Gonna Leave a Mark. It’s where I’m writing about being a childhood cancer survivor, memory, survivorship, and the strange ways certain things stay with you. Read it here:

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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

I voted.

I did not vote for orange man.

Orange man bad.

Even as the press tries constantly to normalize orange man, orange man's own followers admit orange man bad and laugh. They do not understand that they too will suffer under orange man.

Do not vote for orange man.

Princess Leia for my first post here! #cats