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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme
The herb garden always begins with “Scarborough Fair”—never mind that I rarely use sage, and the parsley inevitably becomes the breakfast, lunch, and dinner of swallowtail caterpillars by mid-June, and rosemary and thyme are fall herbs suitable for roasts and smoked cocktails, and my most-used summer herb—basil—doesn’t even make the cut. Continue reading
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What Can Be Done, Will Be Done
I’ve been on a year-long coming-to-terms with capacity, as a concept. Here’s what happened: At the beginning of last year, I sat down with a calendar and blithely booked trips and visits from mid-March through mid-July. Over an 18-week period, I committed myself for 14 weekends, including two international trips. Cumulatively, I spent five and Continue reading
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Soup Season.
I’ve been on a purge. The itch began a while ago, a general sense that I’d accreted to much junk in the closets, too much paper in the drawers, too many cleaned and de-labeled empty jars in the hutch designated for an unknown future occupation sprouting plant cuttings or storing glass beads or (the highest Continue reading
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billie eilish punctuation headcanon
I have headcanon punctuation for the refrain in Billie Eilish’s song “I think therefore I am.” It is this: I’m not your friend, or anything—damn—you think that you’re the man; I think therefore I am Continue reading
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Messy first drafts.
It’s been a few years since I wrote a blog post, and every time I think of writing another I ask myself but do you have a subject worth blogging about? Which is really to say: do you have a subject worth blogging about after so much time? Continue reading
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Achronological storytelling case study: Dunkirk.
Welcome to the 3,000-word analysis of achonological storytelling in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk that was neither requested nor required. Continue reading
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How do you categorize fiction reading?
Making a distinction between “literary” and “non-literary” fiction reeks of snobbery by endowing the former with a desirable quality and then defining everything else by the absence of that quality. Continue reading
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POV in Mystery Fiction
I enjoy a good mystery, but I also enjoy analyzing the plot structure behind how to tell a good mystery. Continue reading
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January word count.
I wrote 13,381 words in January. And as exhausting as that feels, it’s also incredibly exhilarating. Continue reading
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Reading challenge, 2020.
Reading goals are too restrictive. So instead, I’ve given myself a 2020 reading CHALLENGE. Those are different, right? Continue reading
L. H. Lynch 