Some of my favorite things, in no particular order:

• The Hold Steady
• watermelon + crunchy sea salt
• fresh dirt: smelling + digging
• Michel Serres
• dogs in scarves
• feminists
• really, really good espresso
• Farmer’s markets
• Glenn Gould
• vintage medical illustrations
• Minnesota + Minnesotans
• college campuses in the fall
• Copenhagen
• Fugazi
• sophistry
• Flannery O’Connor
• very, very fine tipped pens
• old punk rockers