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Experimenting with Medium

I’ve started occasionally posting at Medium for fun. Three times is occasionally, right? Turning People Into Demons: Like QAnon believers, my preacher mom projected Satan onto people she didn’t like Don’t Write the Tedious Thing: At times I thought I had to include this or that thing in my book, then remembered I could do whatever I wanted Ancestor-Focused Spiritual . . .

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My Book Will Be Out from Random House in Early 2022

Hi. I’m told my book is headed into production soon, and it will be out in early 2022, probably in March. Whew, and hooray! Date and title to come. I’m excited for you to read it, if you’d like to. Meanwhile, my old Ancestor Hunger newsletter is warming up in the driveway. I’m aiming to send new dispatches every two . . .

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Bees, butterflies, and wildflowers in the city

I’ve gotten increasingly into container gardening since moving to Queens three years ago, slowly educating myself about welcoming bees, butterflies, and birds, and tending soil. Some of the containers are large elevated beds. A couple months ago, I started planting for pollinators in an old sidewalk tree plot in front of the house. I wrote about it for the Queens . . .

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September Greetings

Hope you’re all getting by — not a given in these times, I know. I see it’s been a very long time since I updated here, so I thought I’d post a little dispatch from my bunker of hurricane worry in Queens. Today Catapult featured my most recent Tiny Letter, “Notes From the Child of a White Supremacist.” Nicole Chung asked me . . .

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Pigs, Hogs, Unwanted Tax Expertise, and Trump

Some readers asked if I would consider making my latest newsletter dispatch public, so they could link to it. So I posted it at Medium. It’s about, among other things, how I briefly became a tax lawyer (like and unlike my father), and how important it is for us, in politics, always to keep one eye on the money. Especially . . .

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