Annie Sand

Thanks to @Longreads and @kristastevens for choosing my piece “On Metaphors and Snow Boots” as on of the best personal essays of 2022! Honored to be in this fabulous company. longreads.com/2022/12/08/bes…

My new essay in Ecotone Magazine is free to read online for the next two weeks :) ecotonemagazine.org/nonficti…

I don’t like this space anymore but I like you guys! I’ll try to find you in 🟦

Another little essay up today, in case you need some tenderness in your day. Link in bio.

In Barcelona

Short essay about social conditioning and the freedom to use our built environments as we wish (link in bio)

“All we have to protect us against these metaphysically arctic conditions is the frail heat-shield generated by human kindness.” - Seamus Heaney

Woke up with a can’t-move-my-head crick in the neck. Hello Monday

It’s 9:30 AM. I’m wearing a white shirt, and somehow I’ve already gotten tea, breakfast, and snot on it.

Is it the onion? Or literally everything else 😭

Thinking about how to stay both tender and strong after the election. Link in bio.

Not every day your girl turns the big 4-0. My girl, I love you every day and beyond.

The world burns, yet the fire is not bright enough to read a map by. - Emily Ogden

Low key proud of myself for making it this long before pouring a drink. 🥃😓

If you need a break from the news cycle, I wrote a short essay about staying grounded through the madness, link in bio

Want to read about jellyfish and human melancholy? anniesand.substack.com/p/the…

“I’m just so behind this semester,” I say as if I haven’t been behind every semester before this.

I noticed several cherry trees around town have blossoms on them. It’s late October. What is happening?

A student just submitted an entire essay in screen shots of their Notes app (8 screenshots total). Please never ever do this to teachers. We suffer enough.

Confession: at the end of zoom meetings I rush to hit the “leave” button before the host ends the call. YOU DIDNT BREAK UP WITH ME I BROKE UP WITH YOU!

Sick for the fourth time this fall. I think my immune system took a vacation.