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Prior to this post, I wrote about some soothing gifs of coffee and tea being poured, dubbing the subsequent aesthetic #coffeecore. But wha...

Is it insensitive to bake at a time like this? I made peanut butter cookies today. While I ate one I watched a short news segment about a Ch...

A few years ago, a friend called to give me the post-mortem of some aggressively over-regimented wedding she'd plucked out her passport ...

I've been hesitating to open any of my bean can-panions because 1) I love them. 2) I will have fewer friend s. 3) I do not have t...

or rather, found the foster organization and sent them a DM, and the next day someone texted me about a frightened adult cat who needed...

Here's something you can do, if you're stuck at home and you're a (cis) person who wants to work at getting better using they/th...

The first time I tried to foster it didn’t go great ; my husband almost lost his fingertips, the ghost of Charles Manson haunted the...

“Each day she sensed something creeping nearer. If it was happening to someone, it being unspeakable violence, how could she be happy: ...

I'm fine. Bea and I are fine. All bean diaries:  One  |  Two  | Three (You are here).  |  Four  |  Five  |  Six

Look, if you're a home right now, you're lucky. Granted, it can be hard to do anything! The terrible news is mounting, the governm...

I know some people find aestheticising in the midst of pandemic crass, anti-material, oblivious to the needs of dying bodies. Maybe they...

Edward Hopper, Night Windows , 1928 Ever since I started taking an extended sabbatical from Online™ I both have no idea what's goin...

The other day, I FaceTimed with a dear friend: She was wearing a renaissance halo headpiece, drinking a margarita, and worried about l...

I had a giant freak-out yesterday afternoon. And then I watched The Wailing (2016) with my mom in the evening.

I think my brain might be freshly broken in ways I don’t yet understand. I think this in part because I can’t stop listening to Cardi B ...

Like a lot of you , my husband Chris and I recently decided now would be a great time to foster a dog. We’re trapped at home, our mu...

I started out quarantine not feeling like drinking much, but at this point the day shading into evening is also peak Anxiety Hour. One ni...

Still from Ingrid Goes West, 2017 I've sent a grotesque amount of Instagram DMs in the past week. I used to be kind of picky about ...

Tormentedly Untainted , 2019 by Chloe Wise (detail)   Back when I lived in Brooklyn and it was safe to go into other people’s homes...

I can't think of another occasion where literally every country on the planet has cause to publicly report the same grim informatio...