The Authenticity Experiment, the unexpected angels edition. I hate the idea of angels. Really. Those damn cherubs painted by Raphael that hung in every 1980s house, regardless of whether the owner had been to Dresden (where the angels were relocated in 1754) to see them in person. But the thing is, I think that angels—or, rather, guides, as I like to think of them—exist. I’ve seen evidence time and again in my life—turn here, talk…
Month: <span>December 2016</span>
The Authenticity Experiment, the ornament edition. It’s funny what hurts you, what makes you start to cry like a little kid. Tonight, it was that I couldn’t remember—actually never asked how—my mom made this chandelier decoration of velvet ribbon and red, green, and gold ball ornaments. It hung every year in our dining room in the house I grew up in. I decided it would look good in my house, over the table that belonged…
This week you hear from Jenny Forrester. Jenny runs a reading series in Portland called Unchaste: Women Speaking Their Minds and even though this series occurs in my own town, I met her in Minneapolis at AWP, the giant writers conference where 15,000 introverts try to act like extroverts. And then I went and heard some of her readers—she carefully curates every month so that the readers and stories build even though she has no…