TIP FOR SEPTEMBER: FIND AWE
cindyphillips Tripping over translation, Chekhov’s Gun, and Other Things I Learned This Week Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more…
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Come Away and Write: Why Your Next Writing Workshop Might Be in Kei Mouth
A workshop with a getaway attached I host small Workshop Getaways for Writers in Kei Mouth, designed for writers who want practical help with their writing but who would also…
ARE WE BEING GOOD ANCESTORS?
Margaret Fuller’s Birthday and a Chimpanzee An early morning on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony in South Africa still smells of woodsmoke and Impepho trodden underfoot in the…
GEN JONES SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES
The MAY Newsletter: Somewhere between the collapse of attention spans, the rise of artificial intelligence, the return of world wars to the nightly news, and trying to remember why we…
MY BOT IS THE LOVECHILD OF HECTOR AND GYLES.
A Fucking Ridiculous Electronic Device, FRED, has given me back my Fingerspitzengefühl, in this Room Of My Own. That is to say: it (not HE!) exists politely in my life…
STYROFOAM BALLS IN STATIC ROOMS
An Introduction to What Forensic IT Can Establish About Social Media Stalkers It’s wonderful to be on the blogs again. Those friends who have blogged with me since the birth…
Avoiding Moths Whilst Exiting The Woods
from my Substack archive: Cindy Phillips, Looking ahead, ten years after, 24 July 2025 One way I’ve come to understand my own condition is to write something and spend a…
There’s many a slip atwixt the bar room and the lecture hall
from my Substack archives: Cindy Phillips, Jul 11, 2025 The Bar Room and the Lecture Hall “It is always nice to see you,” Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to…
Grandma’s Hand, and the lead up to Leda’s horny swan
from my Substack archives: 4 July 2025 / Topics in this post, for reader discretion: Poultry Porn, things that lead to a lede, and drunk texting in a Town and…
A SHOTGUN, A PREGNANT VIRGIN, AND WOMEN WITH BUCKETS
from my Substack archives: Cindy Phillips, 2 July 2025 Hyannis Port, Mass., July 2 (UPI) – President Kennedy mourned tonight the death of Ernest Hemingway, whom he called one of…