Archive - Chasing Ghosts

Love note to a waking-up world

There is a memory I always associate with spring. My brother and I would run out into our driveway in our swimsuits, stomping barefoot through the…

Apr 15 •

February 2024

On the search for story

Also: Orion, myths, a compass, writer's block, wayfinding, haunted houses, and Harriet the Spy

Feb 19 •

January 2024

Step into holy space

On taking a walk, being open, crossing thresholds, nostalgia, and EMDR therapy.

Jan 9 •

December 2023

An argument for the curiosity project

On following curiosity, cults, The Nutcracker, the Winter Solstice, writing about others, and lampposts marking the passage of time

Dec 18, 2023 •

9 books I read and loved in 2023

📚Also: Book gift ideas for adults, tween recs from my 12-year-old stepdaughter, and books for kids of many ages with some help from Sarah Miller's "Can…

Dec 4, 2023 •

November 2023

All I could not say

On Thanksgiving, when it's hard to show up, putting the garden to bed, dahlias, dreaming, gratitude, grief, winter, and the grey Ohio sky. (6-min. read)

Nov 22, 2023 •

On the idea of a witness

Or, I opened my broken heart and an essay spilled out

Nov 17, 2023 •

My DIY writing retreat

To write about ghosts, sometimes you need to be among them.

Nov 2, 2023 •

September 2023

I have no sense of time

This newsletter is practice

Sep 29, 2023 •

August 2023

The archaeology of time

On the process of excavation

Aug 28, 2023 •

"I just let it happen"

On nostalgia and wonder at the county fair

Aug 10, 2023 •

January 2023

On gentle self-interrogation

... plus, INS & OUTS for 2023

Jan 1, 2023 •

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