Derek MacDonald

I think my life is just a growth spiral. It wasn't always, but it is now. I'm moving forward, while ...

Something you should know about me is that I wasn't always like this.

Choice of perspective. That's what I'm thinking about today.

All I could think about was acceptance while driving home from Friendsgiving weekend in Massachusett...

The start and stop of the sink was nothing compared to the clinking and clanking of the dishes. I'd ...

It's not like I needed a reminder. I was well aware I'd been spreading myself thin again. That reali...

Today marks a whole month without the Substack app. In its absence, one thing has become supremely c...

I wrote my morning pages on my typewriter for the first (and maybe last) time. I've been typing shor...

I'd felt it as soon as I woke up. The snow outside made things warm and cozy rather than dark and dr...

It snowed the first real snow of the season today. There's been spits and spurts, but today it's rig...