What is a new year?
Issue 42, containing: The Perils of the Artistic Temperament; The Self, On Reflection; Commonplaces, &c.
Issue 40, containing: Soap, Local Wanderings, Notes from the Fall Collection, Perhaps a Smidgeon of Medical Horror After All, Commonplaces, &c.
Hello, new Gentle Readers, who may be coming here due to a questionable subscription to the regular blog.
Issue 36, containing: Soap (At Considerable Length and Tragedy), Commonplaces, &c.
As suggested prior, the Sunday Edition was in fact released-- though how it may progress, only time will tell.
Issue 35, containing: Lavender Oyl, Soap, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.
I was wondering aloud today whether there might be value in a Sunday Edition of these pages, with puzzles (and perhaps cartoons?) to wile away the hours-- particularly as we are entering a period of time where perhaps a distraction such as that might be a welcome one at present.
Issue 34, containing: Soap, The Blatant Lies of Technology, On the Matter of Oyles, Commonplaces, &c.
The thing about getting groceries that should be processed upon returning from the store is that one must, then, take the time to process them.
Issue 33, containing: A Correction, A Handy Household Tip, Soap, To Make Wafers, Commonplaces, &c.
Behold! A new masthead! (The shame of the previous masthead's error was such that I could not bear it any longer and I cast it from me, probably down a well.)
Issue 32, containing: Local Wanderings, Almanac for June-July, A Recipe for the Overheated, Soap, The Reading Society, Commonplaces, &c.
I have spent some small amount of time adding tags to the previous issues, corresponding to the most common article types. Is there an easy way to access these tags? Who knows. Is there a list or cloud somewhere? Only time will tell.
Issue 30, containing: Housekeeping Part 2 (Nondiagetic Boogaloo), The Adulteration of Septimus Roe, A Useful Table of Measure, The Green Knight, Another Useful Table of Measure, Letters, The Reading Society, Commonplaces, &c.
It has, once more, been Some Time. I wish I could say I write this sitting in the kitchen sink, but I must instead settle for saying I write this in a tiny text file and with a clicky keyboard, which is less narratively exciting.
Issue 29, containing: Housekeeping (Nondiagetic), An Interesting Method for Skimming Wax, Some Advice for Those Seeking the Northwest Passage, A Partial Guide to Avoiding Casual Poisonings, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.
A new year, and here we are. Welcome. There's fresh bread from the oven, with which I have just eaten a slathering of local maple butter, and with which I will later make a deeply hedonistic grilled cheese.
Issue 28, containing: Regarding Mountains, Sleeping in New Places, A New Locale, Working in New Places, the Humor of Editors, Commonplaces, &c.
I am, at this moment (but not, notably, this moment), writing from a small house in a small place in the middle of Vermont, a smallish state that borders my equally small commonwealth-- but has mountains that (unlike the hulking New Hampshire peaks that sneak up close behind and threaten you lightly for your loose change) stand distant across wide valleys, like kings and queens of wardrobe worlds with considerably more concerns than me, in this small house in this small place with worries much smaller than whatever makes these mountains look quite like *that.*
Katherine Crighton 