Archive - The In-Between

Trapped in Substack-land

For my paid subscribers, a little business:

Jul 9 •

What is the end game here?

Or, When Too Much Is Never Enough

Jul 6 •

the seduction of the mermaid

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Cruelty and Kindness

are habits to be cultivated

Jun 29 •

Wandering Hands

It’s been a while since anyone has made me feel physically uncomfortable.

Jun 25 •

Reparations, Sugar Land, and the Midnight Special

On the way out of Houston, to the south, there’s a city called Sugar Land.

Jun 22 •

Attention is a limited resource

so let's stop giving it away

Jun 18 •

An Ode to Puzzles

Everything old is new again

Jun 15 •

In the book The Lord of the Flies, Piggy is, from the start, the least likely to survive.

Jun 11 •

Hair: a history

See how I resisted calling this "Hairstory"? You're welcome.

Jun 8 •

Sarah the Brand

*Special note: for some reason Gmail started bopping all the email replies to my newsletter into my Spam folder, and I recently discovered a bunch of…

Jun 4 •

Heads in the sand

and the struggle to get free of Algorithmic Overlords

Jun 1 •

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