You’re Taking Notes Wrong: The Method That Finally Made Mine Useful
Annotation is a craft, not a chore. — Most of us underline a passage and move on. We never write the second sentence, the one that says what the passage is actually for, and so…
I Kept a Weather Diary for Nine Years
And then the winters stopped matching it — I am on the Solway shore, ankle-deep in a tide that used to arrive an hour later than this. My grandmother kept the same notebook in the same upright hand, and her Februaries are not my Februaries. Nine years is nothing to a coastline and everything to a person who…
I Learned Letterpress at Sixty and It Rewired the Way I Read
A borrowed case of 12pt Ashlar carries me even now — the compositor who lent it to me — a woman most of the trade had already forgotten — was a stranger to me in 1981, when I was twenty-three and setting my first line backwards without knowing that was the point…
