how do we carry on?

notes from the month of November

Monthly-ish. That’s what I wrote in the description of this newsletter after I posted successfully for two months in a row and thought to myself, Self! You can write interesting essays once a month, c’mon. 

And then November rolled around, and I had nothing to share. I worked on several drafts—about seven of them in my drafts folder; most even have a beg…