Sick for the fourth time this fall. I think my immune system took a vacation.

Confession: at the end of zoom meetings I rush to hit the “leave” button before the host ends the call. YOU DIDNT BREAK UP WITH ME I BROKE UP WITH YOU!

A student just submitted an entire essay in screen shots of their Notes app (8 screenshots total). Please never ever do this to teachers. We suffer enough.

I noticed several cherry trees around town have blossoms on them. It’s late October. What is happening?

“I’m just so behind this semester,” I say as if I haven’t been behind every semester before this.

Want to read about jellyfish and human melancholy? anniesand.substack.com/p/the-divided-…

If you need a break from the news cycle, I wrote a short essay about staying grounded through the madness, link in bio

Low key proud of myself for making it this long before pouring a drink. 🥃😓

The world burns, yet the fire is not bright enough to read a map by. - Emily Ogden

Not every day your girl turns the big 4-0. My girl, I love you every day and beyond.

Thinking about how to stay both tender and strong after the election. Link in bio.

Is it the onion? Or literally everything else 😭

It’s 9:30 AM. I’m wearing a white shirt, and somehow I’ve already gotten tea, breakfast, and snot on it.

Woke up with a can’t-move-my-head crick in the neck. Hello Monday

“All we have to protect us against these metaphysically arctic conditions is the frail heat-shield generated by human kindness.” - Seamus Heaney

Short essay about social conditioning and the freedom to use our built environments as we wish (link in bio)

In Barcelona

Another little essay up today, in case you need some tenderness in your day. Link in bio.

I don’t like this space anymore but I like you guys! I’ll try to find you in 🟦

My new essay in Ecotone Magazine is free to read online for the next two weeks :) ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/who…