Entering into the daily world, where everything is complicated and requires decisions and conversation, means the end of everything. It means not getting to write. The reason the morning is so important is that I’ve spent the night somewhere else. – “How  I Get to Write,” Roxana Robinson It’s five in the morning on a […]

Since reading Sarah Wanenchak’s Cyborgology post on abandoned digital space, I’ve been thinking about the digital spaces I have forgotten or deliberately abandoned, that sit and collect dust, like my first blog on Diaryland. I started writing entries on Diaryland in 2002, and in 2006 I decided I needed a platform that was more professional. […]

I have a Fear of Missing Out on the best links and stories of the day, hesitant of taking breaks from Twitter—of jumping off the moving train—because I feel it will be harder to jump back on, to catch up to everyone else, to saturate myself in all that’s relevant again, to know what now […]

I’ve been quiet here. After my post on online mourning—and an emotionally draining March—I needed a break from writing. For most of April, I’ve been reading and absorbing quietly, and getting frustrated over missed opportunities to post about a topic-du-jour. You should see the drafts I’ve written on nostalgia and authenticity over the past month! […]

The challenge, and the art, lies in confronting the facts—all of them, whether you like them or not—and shaping them into something beautiful. Hannah Goldfield,  “The Art of Fact-Checking,”  The New Yorker I wanted to say I had a romance in the summer of 2002. That my adoration for Montreal grew stronger because of my love […]

While I tend to muse on fleetingness and elusive memory, and find an odd satisfaction in not knowing, recording, or understanding, I do believe in Post-its: a thought frozen in time, emerging from somewhere I sometimes don’t recall. Yellow slips of paper stuck to my journal pages. Virtual ones scattered on my desktop. While I […]