Today’s newsletter is about understanding perfectionism, and how I misunderstood perfectionism for the longest time, so I wasn’t able to detect it in myself. But the letter really began with this image: I built this collage around a drawing that my son wadded up in frustration before running out of the studio in tears. In […]

In today’s newsletter, I write about the new Cindy Lee triple album, Diamond Jubilee: [It] isn’t streaming — you can only listen to it, officially, via a YouTube video or by downloading the WAV files on a Geocities website. As I was drawing KBB-style diamonds on my newly burned CD-Rs — yes, I still have […]

People often ask questions like, “Why do you have that paper dictionary in your office when you can just look things up online?” Reader, let me tell you! Walt Goggins makes me think of the word “ornery” — so I looked that word up. (As John McPhee tells us, it’s important to look up words […]