You Become. It Takes a Long Time.
Just kidding! I can’t do any of the things I thought I could.
Here’s to My Annual Tin of Peanuts
Maybe it was a Five Guys thing where you could have a snack while waiting for your food and throw the shells wherever you liked with the authority and abandon of a Tudor monarch.
Who Am I?
How do you sum up all the complexity of a human being in a medium as limited as words?
Best of 2023, Part Three: Best in tpc History
These pieces have stood the test of time (or of SEO practices).
Best of 2023, Part Two: Editors’ Picks
The best posts are the ones that remind us why this place keeps going.
Best of 2023, Part One: Writers’ Picks
What did they make in the last twelve months that sparked something—grief, pride, thought, joy, a last-minute panic because oh crap it’s my day to post something tomorrow?
My Big Year of Not Birding
If they heard an unusual call, birders may even backtrack those ten steps of progress and bring you back to the parking lot where you began.
Even More Festive Erotica with Your Favorite Librarian
At least in the epilogue she really sticks it to him by making him dress up in a Santa suit at the Christmas party she goes to with all of the other kidnapped women and their abductors/lovers.
Merry Christmas from Florida
The fronds always put me more in mind of Easter.
The Last Christmas Tradition Standing
The Christmas of my youth is dead. That’s just adulthood, I suppose.
