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Eating Monk Food
I like to travel alone as often as I can.
 • Daniel Lavery
The Elegies of Tibullus
An indirect translation of some Latin poems
 • Daniel Lavery
Halloween week in senior living
We read Shirley Jackson’s “The Possibility of Evil” for our short story group on Monday afternoon.
 • Daniel Lavery
Lucian’s Dialogues of the Gods
She’s been made into a cow now. Oh, that’s awful. That doesn’t make it sound serious at all, the rhyme...She is presently a cow, through no fault of her…
 • Daniel Lavery
Hot Borscht at the Soviet Consulate: Visiting the Archives for Women’s Hotel 3
Last week I spent some time at the GLBT Historical Society Archives with a group of residents, and I managed to sneak in a brief dose of research for…
 • Daniel Lavery
The Return of Dirtbag Catullus
Big cup. Big cup! Bring me the bigggg cup you are the boy who brings wine so be the boy bringing me wine
 • Daniel Lavery
“We getting any robots soon?”: AI in Senior Living
Listen, I’m already on the computer. I don’t need to be on the computer any more than I already am.
 • Daniel Lavery
The Chatner
The Chatner
A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.
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