Forest Notebooks

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

What you think about when you don't have to think about anything else

Food - from garden to table - and everything connected, by multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage.

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world.

A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more, and asking better questions. Curiosity makes everything better - but can it be *learned*? Let's find out.

A Substack Featured newsletter about how to live a meaningful life in a chaotic, unstable world. I'm trying to find the place between denial and nihilism, and set up a life there. Come join me for monthly essays, Q&As, links, and shreds of sanity.