“It was absurd to think that things were held in place, are held in place, by a web of words.”

—Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

As a writer, I marvel at our ability to stitch the pieces of our lives together with mere words, trusting them to hold the seams even when we fear we’ll split apart. My stories—the novels, the podcasts, the Penny Journal—are threads along those seams, stitched together with you in mind.

The right word is around here somewhere.