January 2023 Newsletter
I wrote this time last year about the liminality between the end of one year and the beginning of the next. This time last year I was...
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The Champagne Room
- Dec 1, 2022
December 2022 Newsletter
I smashed my thumb in the car door the night before Thanksgiving. The emotional intensity of the event was unexpected—I have spent...
The Champagne Room
- Nov 1, 2022
November 2022 Newsletter
This autumn has been busy, y’all—it’s November already, what else is there to say? We all feel it...
The Champagne Room
- Oct 1, 2022
October Newsletter
This month I’ve had stuck in my head the word shipwrecked. I don’t know what this association means. I walk my dog at night...
The Champagne Room
- Sep 1, 2022
September Newsletter
Awhile ago I became obsessed with neutron stars because I read a sentence in which one was compared to a mountain, as in if a neutron star..
The Champagne Room
- Aug 1, 2022
August Newsletter
I have been thinking a lot lately about recovery. I have been digging at the roots of the word recovery itself, a word that implies...
The Champagne Room
- Jul 1, 2022
July Newsletter
I had wanted this month to write about balance. The pure joy and ease I felt swimming in the ocean, floating on my back and being one...
The Champagne Room
- Jun 1, 2022
June Newsletter
I want to spend the summer near water. I want to spend every day in my bathing suit, wrapped up in a beach towel, hair left wild to dry....
The Champagne Room
- May 1, 2022
May Newsletter
When the first issue of The Champagne Room was published, in June of 2019, we threw a party. Two parties, in fact, in the form of readings..
The Champagne Room
- Apr 1, 2022
April Newsletter
It’s Aries season. My sun sign: the ram, the wildfire, the confident and quick-to-anger, the seemingly bad-ass who does not want the world..
The Champagne Room
- Mar 1, 2022
March Newsletter
Where I live it is already spring. I grew up in the Midwest, where winter is winter and spring is a relief from months of cold and dark...
The Champagne Room
- Feb 1, 2022
February Newsletter
I have maintained some form of written correspondence since I had my first pen pal over twenty years ago. In those years I have made and...
The Champagne Room
- Jan 1, 2022
January 2022 Newsletter
The transition from December to January always feels fraught. Language shifts to that of getting through, of waiting until; it is the...
The Champagne Room
- Dec 1, 2021
December 2021 Newsletter
Writing is so often an act of returning: to places, people, moments, ideas, selves. Because we cannot live any day over, because we...
The Champagne Room
- Nov 1, 2021
November 2021 Newsletter
My fascination with tarot began in a sunlit room in the winter in Vermont. I was about to graduate, to receive an MFA in Creative...
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