The Notebooks | Life Litter | Jill | Substack

The Notebooks

Travel writing excerpts from thirty years of notebooks, painstakingly typed up one Substack at a time. Like a female millennial Bill Bryson, or a less-suave Paul Theroux.

And I want it back. Introducing The Notebooks, and the letters we write to ourselves.

Mar 13

How our internet went down for a week and it mildly impacted my life.

Feb 7

On getting stuck in Grand Junction with the Amish and no Doritos.

Feb 1

I unwind my mind. Trim flaps of superfluous scraps like fat from muscle, bleed the crevasses dry and pan the glimmering nougat dry creek river bed…

Jan 28

Musings on the past and what does and doesn't deserve a ride into the present.

Jan 4

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