Issue 13, containing: The End of an Era, Historical Ephemera, Regarding Cheerfulness in Magazines, A Recipe for Pumpkin Hand Pies, A Note to Gentle Readers, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.

I could pretend that I have saved this 13th issue specifically for Halloween. But this would be a terrible lie.

October 31, 2020 0

Issue 12, containing: Unforeseen Errors in Home Rearrangement, Local Happenings, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.

With the assistance of some careful time management tools (otherwise known as "a polygonal box I spent 20 minutes cutting out and coloring with highlighters"), I have found myself back on track with this issue of the magazine. It's astonishing the things you can trick your own mind into doing.

October 17, 2020 0

Issue 11, containing: Some Considerations Toward Window Treatments, Further Notes on Saints and Statues, A Long-Withheld Definition, More Saint Hilarity, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.

Well, hello.

October 9, 2020 1

Issue 10, containing: On Household Arrangement, Local Wanderings, Classifieds, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.

Because time is a lie on even the best of occasions, last week unfortunately did not have an issue. As such, naturally today's issue is late.

September 19, 2020 2

Issue 9, containing: Autumnal Rites, A Recommendation, On the Meanderings of Memory, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.

A day isn't really finished until you go to sleep -- I'm pretty sure that's true. To that end, this is clearly still a Friday zine. Hooray.

September 5, 2020 2

Issue 8, containing: Cloud Castles, A Handy Household Tip, Historical Ephemera, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.

It's a challenge to come up with a newsletter that manages to talk about neither my business (I have a blog and a twitter for that) nor the mess of the year surrounding us all. I always feel better when I've done so, though, like pushing my way through a sequence of stretches, or the evening after a very long walk. Moving my brain to discuss the very minor moments that make a year is, I'm coming to find, very much worth the trouble.

August 28, 2020 1

Issue 7, containing: Unrecorded Folk Traditions, Classifieds, Timepieces, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.

Would it be fair to say that I forgot to write this issue? Both fair and accurate! Time is strange and uncomfortable, unfortunately linear in ways that I sometimes don't measure well, and apparently today is Friday.

August 21, 2020 0

Issue 6, containing: Local Wanderings, A Dialogue (Overheard), Two Views, Arts and Culture, Meditations by a River Side, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.

I am returned from my vacation -- slightly refreshed, but with the curious weight of reentering the normal world (for various definitions of "normal").

August 14, 2020 0

Issue 5, containing: A Useful Recipe, Historical Ephemera, Further Ephemera, Letters, Commonplaces, &c.

It's difficult for me to find focus when I'm in my own home -- I'm used to going out and locking myself into various locations until I've completed the work that needs doing. I wouldn't say that my writing is suffering, precisely, but it's more difficult than I'd like to get to a moment of mental equilibrium that allows the inner voice to whisper words.

August 7, 2020 1

Issue 4, containing: Tips for Garden Design, Classifieds, Further Notes on Deities, Letters, Summer Fashion Plate, Commonplaces, &c.

In my everyday writing, I am considerably looser than I am here. I use more contractions. I am more likely to use slang and netspeak. I am a fiend for all-caps, and I regret no gifs.

July 31, 2020 0