what's in this email: a good feeling to keep you away from bad stuff Monday September 21, 2026 10 AM Greetings you Thinkers, Monday, new week, post mid September, Fall. What's in the bag of this time of life? Duck is still sick. Coughing and hacking and retching, sneezing. It's weird to see a dog have a cold. Wiping his snotty nose... And I am worried and concerned and thinking about if and when to take him to the vet along with all my stuff of medical system resistance. Do we really need to...
1 day ago • 6 min read
what's in this email: Tweetys mean what? your word mattersbroken promises, my biggest peeve Sometimes knowing what you want gets in the way of finding it THE HUNT IS IN THE BAG Stop feeding your pets! but not those pets! Sunday September 20, 2026 8:20 AM Greetings you Thinkers, A semi rushed email from the island in the kitchen because I have to be out this door in 30 minutes. Today is a Lucketts counter shift day. Neighbor Betty's celebration of life was good. They had old pictures and it...
2 days ago • 8 min read
what's in this email: maybe I need an overall correction of perspective wondering if my perspective is a problem Whether everything is perspective or not, I believe everything is perspective. Saturday September 19, 2026 9:30 AM Greetings you Thinkers, Today is neighbor Betty's celebration of life. I recently thought about celebration of lifes VS "traditional" funeral services and I have some wonderings about if the newer norm of celebrating VS mourning may be negatively impacting versus the...
3 days ago • 7 min read
what's in this email: Friday September 18, 2026 9:30 AM Greetings Thinkers, Alright, I'm ready to get out of beach and trip mode. I have been feeling like the emails haven't been great, while also not feeling sure about what makes the emails good in the first place. Whatever it is or is not, I am ready to be done talking about the beach trip here for now. So if you've been feeling that too, this is for you too. Also back to the morning! Good morning to you Thinkers! At least I hope it is good...
4 days ago • 8 min read
what's in this email: Thursday September 17, 2026 7:45 PM Greetings Thinkers, Another end of day email. When will I break this alternate routine? I thought it would be this morning, my first day back from trip. But once into my morning, I really wanted to get over to my spaces. They had gone untouched for 9 days and I was pretty anxious about what states of disorder and plant death they would be in. So I decided "what's one more day" for not morning emailing, and got headed over sooner than...
5 days ago • 7 min read
what's in this email: travel day home from the big beach trip + the anniversary of my Dad's death (how has it been 4 years?) = the last day in more than one (unrelated) way Wednesday September 16, 2026 8:45 PM Greetings Thinkers, Back to from the pineapple print chair and mismatched striped ottoman. We are home again. I am denoting the official end of Summer, for myself: with a Corona on the drive home, my Dad's sunset over my shoulder on the last leg of that drive home, and a vodka tonic...
6 days ago • 9 min read
what's in this email: Tuesday September 15, 2026 8:20 PM Well Thinkers, Today was the last day of this beach trip. I felt it all day long. That familiar melancholy for something long anticipated to be over. They often say other languages have a lot more words for things than we do. This feels one of those times. Where is the word for familiar melancholy for things like beach trips and Summer and and Christmases to be over? There's a very particular sadness in things that are reliably...
7 days ago • 7 min read
what's in this email: what love is, what beach is, what counts are Monday September 14, 2026 6:13PM& 10 AM Greetings Thinkers, In reverse chronological order today because this picture, this scene, this feeling, and this moment are so GOOD I want it to set the page with it. now back to ante meridiem 9:54AM from the dusty pigeon blue couch. 2 days left of this trip. Something is going on with Chip. (Recall: Chip is Duck.) I missed the sunrise today except my Mom got it for me because something...
8 days ago • 8 min read
what's in this email: Sunday September 13, 2026 9 PM Greetings Thinkers, 9PM From a spot on the dusty pigeon blue couch of the beach house. We're watching iconic song movie scenes. I finished my SECOND trashy fiction book today. Was distracted by it, buried myself in it a little. Couldn't stop reading it. Sat on the beach with my Mom today. Took us 5 days of being at the beach to do that. Had out first beach sammy too. Took us 5 days of being at the beach to do that too. Still feeling sun...
9 days ago • 5 min read