It turns out you can't control January

one of 13 short things from the week

“gimme summa that tuna melt, auntie,” says Ellie

This week, it felt too hard to coax one kernel of experience into a full narrative. Instead, I thought I’d take the kaleidoscopic approach, turning the fragmentation of daily experience into the orderly form of a list.

1. I’ve realized that I rarely do anything in silence anymore. Instead, I fill my eardrums w…