Welcome to the audio version of my website House Doodles, an online notebook of my growing collection of essays, short stories, daydreams, and doodles where I contemplate houses and life in them.
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An essay about gardening as many acts of authorship
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25 Aug 2023
Staying Home
An essay about how working from home or staying home to care for a child influences the way people see you and the way you see yourself
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1 Feb 2023
Spin Cycle
A piece of microfiction showing how even laundry offers a chance for contemplation.
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1 Jan 2023
Coolheaded
A piece of microfiction about standing at the intersection of solitude and community in a small town and choosing which direction to turn.
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6 Nov 2022
Longing
A piece of microfiction about the loss that occurs in increments in our home lives
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6 Nov 2022
A Little Peace and Quiet
An essay about how there’s a kind of magic to having your own place, even if it’s only for a couple of hours at the end of the day
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6 Nov 2022
Just Be Done With It
An essay about the long road of housework and working on the house, and the end of the journey
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8 Mar 2022
At the Trailhead
A piece of microfiction about a woman who leaves home and hometown behind, keeping only one fragment from among the broken pieces of her life--a friendship
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8 Mar 2022
Thorny
In this short story, a young couple move into their dream home and set about making it their own. Unfortunately, the former owner has her own agenda. Think of the house in the film The Money Pit. Now imagine if Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty lived there.
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7 Mar 2022
Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe
An essay about how difficult it can be to choose a place to call home, even when the sky is not the limit
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7 Mar 2022
Laundry List
An essay about the push and pull of efficiency and inefficiency in daily life at home
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7 Mar 2022
Home Away from Home
An essay about the urge to either relocate or redecorate based on the good feelings we experience during vacations, and about how getting a little out of one’s own context can change a person, for better or for worse
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7 Mar 2022
Comings and Goings
An essay about entering and departing, leaving and landing, lingering and resting, via stoops and porches and doorways
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7 Mar 2022
Piggies and Bears
An essay about how the seemingly humble cabins and pretty little cottages in children's picture books represent some fairly high-priced real estate
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7 Mar 2022
A Worthwhile Endeavor
An essay about life choices, including the desire to rehab old houses
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7 Mar 2022
Shelf Life
An essay about the travails of unpacking boxes of books after moving to a new house
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7 Mar 2022
Age and Authenticity
An essay about the search for authenticity, in part through life lived in old houses
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7 Mar 2022
About House Doodles
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