Alice 💌
A quiet corner for essays on reading, slow living, and small daily rituals. Stay as long as you like.
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October 13, 2026
The Sentences I Tidy
I don't write much here about the work. I copyedit from home, which means I spend my days inside the way other people think, one clause at a time, closer to their writing than they are.
September 9, 2026
Back to School, for No One
Every September I want to buy a notebook and become a different person. The urge is twenty years out of school and going strong, and it always takes the form of wanting to buy the organisation rather than do it.
August 19, 2026
A Fallow Stretch
Nothing has happened for about three weeks and I've decided to leave it that way. A fallow field isn't a failed one, and I'm trying to believe the same about a flat patch of a life.
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