Pinned5 Ways to Read like a WriterI used to feel slightly ashamed of the amount of time that I invest in reading and coming up with methods to remember what I read. But then…Aug 26, 202230Aug 26, 202230
PinnedBooks I read and listened to in 2023, with commentary.As 2023 fades into the rearview mirror, I am looking back at my annual list of what I read in the last twelve months.Jan 20Jan 20
Some of my favorite quotes about writing and creativityAt some point in early 2020, after a random conservation with my sister-in-law about the problem of remembering what we read, I started to…Apr 20, 20231Apr 20, 20231
Books I read and listened to in 2022, with commentaryWelcome to my second annual review of my year in reading! Like last year, I divide my books into fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, but I…Jan 3, 20231Jan 3, 20231
Another DFPS meeting about investigating gender-affirming care as child abuseI did not have any pride swag. This was my thought last Friday morning as I prepared to go to the headquarters of the Department of Family…Dec 17, 20221Dec 17, 20221
A Book Review that Nobody Asked For: Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane di PrimaHave you ever read a book so wildly unique, so relentlessly its own thing, that, immediately upon finishing it, you want to call up every…Sep 23, 20221Sep 23, 20221
Essay In Which I Prove the Existence of the PatriarchyLast month, the Southern Baptist Convention released an investigation report describing how the organization’s leaders have been…Jun 24, 20222Jun 24, 20222
Weird Things Happen Around Bald WomenWhen Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, I turned to my thirteen-year-old son and ten-year-old daughter and said: “Weird things…Apr 2, 20222Apr 2, 20222
What I Saw and Heard at a Meeting about Care for Transgender Youth in TexasYesterday I went to a public meeting of the advisory council for the Texas Department of Family Protective Services. I’d never been to a…Mar 13, 20224Mar 13, 20224
Books I read (and listened to) in 2021, with commentaryOn December 31, 2021, I got roped into making a list of books that I read and listened to in 2021. By “roped in,” I mean that my father…Jan 10, 2022Jan 10, 2022