All My Dead and Living Things is a writing project about memory, place, grief, and belonging.

Over the past year, it has been a public record of my hometown, Hudson, New York — how it has changed, what those changes stir up, and what it might take for a community to move forward in a way that allows people to remain fully themselves and feel like they belong. These essays sit at the intersection of personal history and civic life, tracing how loss, power, love, and care shape the places we live.

At its core, All My Dead and Living Things is an act of witnessing — of people, of places, of transitions that often go unmarked. It’s a space where the past is not treated as something to get over, but something that continues to inform how we live, love, and build together.

I offer this as a collective service and a public good. I write with the hope that this work remains accessible in a diverse, multi-class community like Hudson, where conversations about memory, loss, power, and belonging shouldn’t be limited by ability to pay.

At the same time, this work requires time, care, research, listening, and sustained attention. Subscribing isn’t about unlocking extra content — it’s a way of helping hold this work in common. If this writing has mattered to you, steadied you, or given you language for something you’ve been carrying — and you have the capacity — your support helps keep it available to others and sustainable for me.

If you don’t right now, you’re still welcome here.