I love it when friends send me texts asking, “Have you seen that full moon?!” Or when I get a haircut, and the stylist and I marvel over the moon as if it had been a Netflix show we'd binge-watched. My view of the huge Wolf Moon came as it rose behind trees in my neighborhood, looking as if it were tangled up in the bare winter branches. It was like an illustration from a book of fairytales and just as magical today as when I was a child. Every month it amazes me that we are still in thrall to a moon rise, that spectacular sunsets have the power to render us speechless, that wild storms stir the primal, untamed parts of us. This earth we land on at birth and that receives us when we die, our lonely ship in space, our generous mother…is it too late to save her and to save our souls in the process? Goodnight, Moon—long may you rise like a planetary prayer and long may we be here looking up to say Amen.

I’m loving the HBO show Somebody Somewhere, starring comedian Bridget Everett. Big city girl moves back to her small Kansas hometown and bittersweet comedy ensues with her biological family and what becomes her chosen family of fellow outsiders. She's great and so is costar Jeff Hiller. It’s quietly funny and sweet—just the Rx for pandemic panic, which still catches me unawares.

My daughter used to live in a town in Washington that had a grocery that made tortillas on the spot. I still think about them, but recently I saw a reference to Caramelo tortillas made with duck, pork or avocado fat and shipped straight to your door. They look a world apart from the tired, floury tortillas available on the supermarket shelf—I can’t wait to deliver them straight to my mouth.

I’m starting a series of 12 books by Joseph Hansen that was groundbreaking when the first one, Fadeout, was published in 1970. Groundbreaking because the main character, Dave Brandstetter, is a private investigator who is confidently gay at a time when homosexuality was criminalized in 49 of 50 states. Although his writing drew critical acclaim at the time, Hansen’s books never gained the kind of popular audience they deserved. Here’s hoping this will change with the reissue.

I’ve been following Kassandra’s online yoga classes during the pandemic, but this 10 Minute Morning FULL BODY stretch for beginners is new to me. Caitilin, who designs my newsletter and is a hardcore yoga and pickleball athlete, is a fan. Kassandra has tons of classes at all levels to choose from, but this short stretch is a good way to start the day.