You Think Too Much

You Think Too Much

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The day lily died before I could finish painting it

Am I a heartless wretch? Was Georgia O'Keeffe? Are all artists heartless wretches?

I spend hours staring at things

Painting people is hard

Sometimes we have to break the world into the smallest possible bits in order to really see it

Would Van Gogh have hated Mother's Day, too?

This is not a post about Glennon Doyle

What if Van Gogh wasn't actually talented?

On zombies and racial reconciliation

Apparently, the problem is that I cannot be serious

Maybe I don't want to be doing this anymore

Dear Robyn, you will not be on the Johnny Carson show, but it will still be okay

Birds are the opposite of doom-scrolling

“One thing I know for sure—he doesn’t care about us at all!”

A totally useless and mostly random list of things I've learned in 51 years

Rowing upstream together with Galiot Press

Why we should stop making to-do lists and switch to a done good list, especially now

Sport for everyone: the case of transgender athletes

How to tell if a woman is really a woman? (Spoiler: You cannot)

Stoic hopelessness and small cruelties

Surviving Act Three

What activism might look like now

Finding Barbara Kingsolver

Writing a novel is the adult version of building a blanket fort

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