Hi friend! Before we get into this week's letter, a few updates. (1) The About page has been rewritten, including a short and slightly embarrassing list of what this newsletter thinks it is for; (2) starting this week the essay runs free for everyone, and the links section ("Six Things Worth…
A: For about a year, and then the foot goes numb. A short answer, three long footnotes, and one very specific story about a rented room above a hardware shop on a street I still avoid driving down.
What actually got you to stop, and to stay stopped? Or: what keeps you circling the decision when there has never been one clean week you can point at?
I'm back in the valley this week. Not even three full weeks upstate and the creek came over the road, took out the fence, filled the crawlspace, stop me if you've heard this one before. Right when I'd got the desk angled correctly against the window; right as I'd started taping the index cards to the…
