Archive - my candle burns

no wrong turns / plus an assortment of recs

Jul 10 •

June 2025

in which I suddenly (or not so suddenly) swerve toward birth-work!?

Jun 17 •

May 2025

writing and publishing from motherhood's tenderest thresholds

May 15 •

mother's day, inscrutability, negative test, joy

May 8 •

difficult weather

imagining the worlds that continue within collapse -- a bunch of book recs

May 1 •

April 2025

the manuscript, pt. 1

come along with me as I shape five years of poems about motherhood into a new full-length book

Apr 3 •

March 2025

on "Bibliophobia," motherhood's plotlessness, and returning to reading after maternal brain fog

Mar 26 •

February 2025

the desperate self

reading survival fiction while mothering children in America

Feb 17 •

I made my google-doc diary into a zine

and you can too!

Feb 3 •

January 2025

I read picture books more than novels

and it's taking care of me, I think.

Jan 22 •

as the year begins

all I have to offer is a poem

Jan 6 •

December 2024

on serums, scents, creams, and other "fancy" things

Dec 10, 2024 •

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