Maenad Diary

The bluff in the title refers to Council Bluff, just outside Missoula, Montana, where I've made my home since 2005. I'll be writing on local history, outdoor adventure in wild places, and the writing life--plus whatever strikes me otherwise...

Exploring what it means to be human.

Zooming out and connecting the dots between culture, gender, politics, neurodiversity, history, and the natural world. From a cultural anthropologist and award-winning poet who's lived several years in vastly different cultures.

Meatball Americano is about learning what it means to be an Italian-American in the 21st century. This is the newsletter.

History, literature & philosophy

An independent journalism newsletter supported by the U.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics

Poetry once a week, sometimes political, always music.

(formerly LivingSmall)