Because it's too hot to think in a tank. Unusual cultural musings by an award winning author and sometimes professor of history and of poetry. Ideas and the creative life. Books, art, tv, science, atheism, poetry, doubt etc.

Dispatches from the author of The Idiot

Essays, poetry, photographs, & the occasional bug

Living in Kauai after selling our Montana home of 44 years

On the process of writing and publishing poetry books.

Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)