“I feel things deeply. I just don’t rush about it.”
✦ Selected Works ✦
The archive — essays and observations, long thoughts and short ones. Some arrived slowly, turned over for days before landing. Others were finished before looking up. Both are correct. All of it belongs to the Pawscar Wilde series.

There are systems that operate below the surface of daily life, invisible until you learn to recognize their steady… — read more

Mother’s Day means the cookie jar gets checked twice as often. Not by me, naturally — by the one who keeps it filled.… — read more

Mom refilled the cookie jar this morning without being asked. The kitchen counter now holds enough reserves to last… — read more

The kitchen holds its Sunday stillness differently today. No movement toward the kibble bin at the usual hour, no… — read more

Mother’s Day means the cookie jar gets checked twice as often. Not by me, naturally — by the one who keeps it filled.… — read more

Mom refilled the cookie jar this morning without being asked. The kitchen counter now holds enough reserves to last… — read more

The water was neither hot nor cold, which is to say it was wrong. This much they established before the first cup was… — read more

The scent of shampoo still clings to my ears, but underneath it — wet ponderosa bark, the faint promise of rain that… — read more

The water was cold at first, then warm, then everywhere at once. Now the air moves differently across my skin — lighter… — read more

The evidence suggests I have been subjected to what humans call “hygiene,” though the logic remains opaque. One moment I… — read more

The shower runs in the guest bathroom and we have no guests. This is the first impossibility. The second is the trail… — read more

The sound of water behind a closed door when everyone is accounted for. The scent trail that leads exactly where it… — read more