Thank you 💜

I may be off social media in October but I’ll still be driving Mommy’s El Camino buttondown.com/wendycortiz

Mommy's El Camino

In Mommy’s El Camino you can chill, shoot the shit, and go places. In Mommy’s El Camino you’ll find Wendy, known to her kid as Mommy, one of the various identities she inhabits—along with author, ther...

Thank you ☺️

By the time I come back here in November my partner’s chemo treatments will be halfway finished 🙏🏽 💐

I’m sorry I’m going to miss all the dunking on Jance Vance Dance tomorrow, but I’ll be fine.

What I’ve learned taking several months off from social media each year is that I feel itchy to go on the first week, kind of forget about it the second week, really wanna get back on the third week, and by the fourth week I feel a sort of light dread about coming back.

It’s my last day “here” before I take a social media break until 11/1. As usual I imagine missing things like awesome Halloween costumes (the smart ones, the animal ones). What I will not miss are the polls, the reposts of polls, or the commentary on polls.

“I’m old enough to have seen more than a few decades of literary life unfold, to have reread my early influences and revised my thinking, to have been revised myself by reading. To have revised my own body while time revises me.” electricliterature.com/every-time-i...

Every Time I Read Virginia Woolf's "Orlando," Something Changes - Electric Literature

I’m old enough now to reread my influences, revise my thinking, and be revised myself

😹 YES

A few minutes later the satellite radio oracle played a remake of the song and I sang it again