My Writing

"The places in JWST’s first images are not places for us. But instead of seeking to speckle them with familiar, Earthly worlds, we can give in to the alienation and embrace the loneliness, let it transmute into a new kind of awe."

"A 10-day quarantine is enough to break a person. I love my son to the end of the world, but this is not about whether I love him enough." 

"To see Earth as a planet is to see it as one of many, among comrades in the solar system and kin in the cosmos, just one of what turn out to be bountiful worlds."

"If I learn to love my writing as unconditionally as I love my child, it will be a triumph of good-enough. It will be because I see my writing’s specialness and magic, utterly itself whether it’s frail or robust, mild or stormy, eloquent or nearly silent, compared to no one and nothing."