Archive - Chelsea Time

Magical crone transformation, 9/15/22

I have, in the past month, turned 30, and I have to admit that instead of feeling even the tiniest bit of dread, I have been if anything genuinely…

Sep 15, 2022 •

August 2022

The pits, 8/15/22

What, loyal readers of this newsletter may be wondering, was Chelsea even doing in the year between last August and this past July?

Aug 15, 2022 •

July 2022

Dead Sea scrolling, 7/15/22

If you're a tourist in Israel, as I was for the past two weeks, you're probably going to spend a fair amount of time at various tourist attractions…

Jul 15, 2022 •

July 2021

The Mickey Mouse club can't even handle me right now, 7/26/21

Over shepherd's pie at the Rose & Crown, the ersatz English pub at Epcot, it is impressed on me that every single body of water in Florida might contain…

Jul 26, 2021 •

May 2021

That train is looking pretty grimy, 5/15/21

I started reading Anna Karenina out of sheer pique.

May 15, 2021 •

April 2021

Work hard pandemic hard, 4/6/21

For some reason, I am on the board of a nonprofit organization.

Apr 7, 2021 •

February 2021

The Overthinker, 2/14/21

For the past month or so, I've been doing what looks very much from the outside to be nothing.

Feb 15, 2021 •

January 2021

My new year's resolution is to stop all the pollution, 1/4/21

At the end of every year since 2015, sometime around Christmas, I type up something I fondly call an "annual plan." Do not mistake this for the actions…

Jan 4, 2021 •

August 2020

Twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom, 8/10/20

I have had the same song stuck in my head for the past month.

Aug 11, 2020 •

July 2020

Gross domestic productivity, 7/2/20

Since the school year ended, I've been asked more than once what I'm up to this summer.

Jul 3, 2020 •

June 2020

Galaxy brain, 6/6/20

Sometime around last Sunday, all of the personal ambitions I had obsessively been figuring out how to achieve started to seem self-indulgent and…

Jun 6, 2020 •

April 2020

COVID’s metamorphoses, 4/6/20

Standing in a Safeway the day the shelter-in-place order was announced, I finally understood why people hoard things.

Apr 7, 2020 •

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