It’s a magical realism spring…though maybe every spring is a magical realism spring…let me check my notes. Yup, we’re good.

“Hello, Baby-Sitters Club?” Claudia Kishi picked up the telephone on the first ring, twirling the neon cord around her nail art-adorned finger.

From February’s paid-subscriber email: In which I attribute a selection of my own character flaws and unlikeable actions to celebrities.

Observed and overheard: three unrelated arguments in favor of showing up early (and then just letting things unfold).

Ossification and yassification are not mutually exclusive. See also: time-sensitive enjoyments and postcards from the promised land.

From January’s paid-subscriber email: All of our misplaced sunglasses are thriving in an alternate dimension (and they don’t want to talk to us).