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  • Winter Newsletter: The Big Dark (and a cover reveal)

    January 8, 2026 This past December 28 was the shortest day of my entire life. I was visiting Copenhagen with my family. That day we had a scant seven hours and three minutes of sunlight. (The previous week we’d been in Hamburg, farther south, so even though the days had been getting longer since the…

    andalemos

    January 12, 2026
    Uncategorized
    Annunciation House, cover, cover reveal, dark, newsletter, Notre Dame, short days, shortest day, winter
  • Autum Newsletter: On Habits and History

    September 22, 2025 Hallo from Berlin! Three weeks ago, my family and I flew to the German capital, where we’ll be living until March while my husband is on sabbatical. He’s working in a lab here, our kids are in a bilingual school, and I’m busy working with my editor on manuscript revisions for my…

    andalemos

    January 12, 2026
    Uncategorized
    newsletter, book news, autumn, sustainability, Berlin, walking
  • Summer Newsletter: Tomato Cans, Coconuts, and How Books Might Save Us

    June 24, 2025 Done is better than perfect. That’s what my Aunt Sue used to say, when I was stuck on getting a craft project just right. I took it as liberating permission to stop fussing over something I’d created, call it good, and get it launched into the world warts and all. I considered…

    andalemos

    January 12, 2026
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    Ali Smith, Annunciation House, book news, Gliff, Jonathan Blitzer, Mother Teresa, newsletter, summer
  • Remembrance of Box Fans Past

    [Note: This essay was first published in the late great naturezine Woolgathering in 2018.] It was June or maybe even July of last year when my mother gave me a fan. It was a box fan, the kind you can wedge into an open window. Summer had barely arrived in Seattle. It had rained all…

    andalemos

    March 11, 2025
    Essay
    box fans, Essay, memoir, nature, personal narrative, summer, woolgathering
  • Small Step/ Giant Step

    It’s time. I’m starting my author website. Something like fifteen years ago I started a blog on one of the old platforms. I made maybe half a dozen entries before giving up, and I doubt a single person read any of my posts. But I still remember the first thing I typed: “I stand on…

    andalemos

    January 6, 2025
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