Things
| Columns
| Objects of Affection
I Sought a Good-Luck Charm to Write. I Found My Body Instead
To choose an omamori is to cast a wish.
Columns
| Objects of Affection
A Key Ring Returns Me Home
By chance, I’d taken up her keys, the keys of my childhood.
Columns
| Objects of Affection
Shaping Butter Helps Me Feel Everything
What I mean is, butter puts me in my body.
Columns
| Objects of Affection
How to Ground Your Body With a Combination Square
I couldn’t deny my aches and pains and eating disorder; after a while, it became too exhausting.
Columns
| Objects of Affection
What a Seashell Souvenir Tells Me About Loss
Selfishly, as a writer, I’m also worried about the seasons to come.
Columns
| Objects of Affection
Finding Gender in a Razor
Shaving with it was more seductive than expected.
Things
| Heirloom
An Ode to the Kamenoko Tawashi, the Turtle Brush
Natural, natural, everything natural. I’m a sucker for it, Shinto-ish environmentalist and object-worshipper that I am.