We tweet occasionally and we're on Instagram.

Do you ever feel like you’re scratching at the walls of this world? Like you’re imprisoned in yourself and can’t work out how to break through? I do. If you do too, you might be interested in a letter I’m sending out tomorrow,
I’ve often been saved by remembering that places are—at least partly—beliefs. The mind has so much power to invent and reinvent space. Here’s a woman who was saying all this better than me, way before me: the Argentine writer
Might be more excited about this than anything else I’ve ever written. What if the way we think about evolution and life on earth is just plain wrong? What if life is actually a story of interspecies dependence and symbiosis, down to the very c
Actually said “oooOooooOooO” when I opened this beautiful Maryse Meijer ARC from @counterpointpress. That’s an alien’s hand not mine obviously.
#familiesbelongtogether #openborders
Si pendeja, we do. #familiesbelongtogether #openborders
Hi pals, I started a newsletter. I’ve spent most of my life struggling to stay put, always yearning for other places, and the more people I spoke to, the clearer it became that I’m not alone. This newsletter will be an effort to get to th
WOMEN OF LA! I’m running another Hike & Write workshop and I have two spots left. Come and join me! What: We’ll spend around four hours in the Angeles National Forest, hiking along a gentle, flat, shady path for 1.5 hours. We’ll
I turned 34 a month ago and I’ve been really struggling under the weight of expectations—the world’s and so, insidiously, also my own—about what I should be doing and should have done by this age. Being a 34-year-old woman isn
HELLO friends, specifically **women friends.** Here is an invitation. Come and spend an afternoon with me in the Angeles National Forest, on a gentle, shady, beautiful hike along the Arroyo Seco. We’ll eat cake and paddle in the river, do a li
LA! I’ll be reading a story tonight at Stories in Echo Park, at a fundraiser for the Wilderness Society’s campaign to protect the Arctic. There’ll be science and stories and songs and art, plus speakers I can’t wait to hear. W
In this creepy post-truth desert we’re wandering, sincerity is a political act. Wrote about kindness, the difficulty of knowing, and Jesse Ball’s devastating and beautiful new novel Census, for today’s LA Times. Today’s Arts &
I wrote about the illusion of choice under consumer capitalism, plus Jessica Bruder’s alarming new book Nomadland, Karen Flett’s Living the Airstream Life, and that time I lived in an Airstream. Front of today’s LA Times Arts &
Dinner time. Spot the creep.
#mood wisdom teeth no more. Sympathy will be accepted in the form of ice cream, videos of puppies, and love letters.
Sometimes I get paid to read the most amazing books. It was a gift to write about women's bodies, pain, joy, and Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, for the @latimes. Today's Arts & Books section, or link in bio. #carmenmariamach
Had some thoughts about whether there's hope for humanity, and a recent international bestseller, for the LA Times. Today's Arts and Books supplement, or link in bio. #clifi #bees #dystopia #majalunde
If you don't go and see Radical Women: Latin American Art at the Hammer you probably won't regret it for the rest of your life because you won't know what you're missing BUT YOU SHOULD. #hammermuseum #radicalwomen #lenoradebarros
Dumpster questions. #oxalismovie
#LAmorningfeels
Happy New Year from Cornwall!
@lerrynscafe with good friends. #toomuchcoffee #tbt
This is what Stonehenge looks like from the road when @timothyrobins won't stop the car because he's a selfish big git. #England
#skyceiling at Little Chef
Wales #photophoto
Typically not a flare fan but... #prettyphonelady
#intrepidity
@wetthehippo #simple #fashion
#breakfast #hustling
@ellierobins0 #breakfastreading
#littleitalian #notsolittleitalian
Never seen the Pacific so still. And that water is warm y'all! #elninoiscoming
#paper
Diorama dog carnage
#ridesthebusLA
#science